CEMETERY URN is a death metal band from Australia who formed in 2006. "Suffer The Fallen" is their fifth full length album. The atmosphere of this album is incredible. The sound is cold as a grave and stark as the night.  Throw in an absolutely filthy old school sound, then the result is one of the best death metal productions I've heard in this second half of the year. 

None of that would mean anything if the song writing wasn't solid as hell. None of it would mean anything if the songwriting didn’t match up on the same level.  Does it?  You bet your sweet rotten corpse it does.  This is eight tracks and thirty 34 minutes of ghastly death metal that is as harrowing as it is brutal. The album opens with “Damnation Is In The Blood,” and it barrels right out of the gates, as if it was already full speed ahead before the play button was ever pressed.  The drums are very speedy and tightly focused.  This is only half the power of the rhythm—the other half is the dark, deep, monolithic bass. About halfway through, the song slows down and the riffs really get to breathe.  The guitars sound so awesome and well executed that it sounds as fresh as a recently vacated grave.  The solo near the end is clever, not too over the top and fits right in with everything around it.

The bass really slaps on “Savage Torment,” right alongside the rapid firing riffs in the opening moments.  The vocals have the right amount of echo on them to compliment the deep growls without it sounding cheesy or overdone.  The drums accent just the right moments when the riff hit the hardest for a double zombie face punch.

“Room Of Depravity” sounds like a musical horror filled, sunless world of decay. There is a sickness within this song that also somehow is even a little catchy! Dying never sounded so good!  It doesn’t hurt how much the groove destroys while the double bass rumbles underneath it either.  Some of the most massive riffs are on this song and it has become one of my favorites on the album.

The title track is another song that sounds like it was already going by the time the one second mark hit and I like that idea…makes the song unrelenting and unapologetic.  This is death metal so that is what I want.  No apologies accepted, only death is real!  In all seriousness, the middle mark of the song is just crushing, groovy and commands a huge presence. 

The final banger is “It Will End In Death” and, honestly, is there are more fitting title for the last track of a death metal album?  The music is as good as I thought it would be.  This one takes a slightly slower approach at times, putting in methodical methods for a kill.  

All in all, this is a hugely satisfying album that fans of the genre will want to hear over and over again.   It gets to the point quickly and uses every available second to promote ultimate deathly devastation.