SOULROT come from Valparaiso, Chile and they play a dark, northern European style of Death Metal.  Formed in 2013, this is their second full length album.

Their music encompasses all the horror, Lovecraftean, supernatural tropes you would expect. I mean half the titles on the album took longer to write down than it did to play the songs!

Titles like "Nihilistic Automata", "Deceiving Tyranny Manifesto", "Protect The Coven," etc. illustrate the territory we are in.

Whilst there are fifteen songs on the album, most are between two and third minuets in length.  The exception being "What Destroys You, Makes Us Strong", being about five minuets, and actually is not too bad a song.

However for me one strong song, and a few musical interludes do not make an album.  You can have as many cold horror song titles as you like, but for me this doesn't make a thought provoking, challenging listen.

It isn't that it is bad, it just isn't my taste.  I could see with a little more progression and tempering of the wall of noise approach on every track there could be something listenable in there.

Like a number of the Scandinavian Death Metal bands have done over the years, take some of the visceral energies and channel them, hone them, refine them.  You don't have to lose the menace, in fact Death played well is a thing to behold.  However played badly, it becomes parody.  I think these guys could expand beyond where they are.  I hope they do, because for me this is currently meh?