People must understand a thing when playing Metal: the personality isn’t a thing that you can leave aside. No, a band must be a band, and not a clone of any other (why in the blazes one would buy an album if you have the original one in your home?). The best way to do it: forget if you love another bands and albums, and combine all the influences you have on your own to breed something different. This is the way acts as MORBID ANGEL, CANNIBAL CORPSE, SUFFOCATION, DEICIDE, BENEDICTION, ENTOMBED, DISMEMBER, CARCASS and other did in the past to become influences today: they get the genre, added their own personality, and kept on. And besides “GoreSphere” depicts a band that still needs more maturing, CERCENATORY (from Barranquilla, Colombia) is on the right way.

The production of the album was conceived to be organic and nasty, but not relying on older Brutal Death Metal formulas. Honestly, the sonority seems more into a traditional Death Metal one, with thing sounding sick and nasty, filthy and distorted, but with a good level of definition (for the sake of the fans’ understanding). And the artwork created by Bvllmetalart is truly sick and fits on what the band plays. The quartet defines itself as a Brutal Death Metal act, but such definition isn’t totally true, because they’re using a good level of traditional Death Metal influences on their music. Of course that the fans will hear such slower and oppressive parts with low grunted tunes on the vocals, a good technical level and everything else. But besides it sounds sick and disturbing, there are some refinements on their music, and besides they must work to show a personality in the future, it’s not hard to hear their potential pulsing on the album.

“Inquisitor Vortex Soul Torturing” (fine guitar arrangements and good technical level), “Through the Deep Thoughts of Tartarean Sadistic Cannibalism” (faster moments can be heard, with sick guitar riffs helping things to get interesting), “Into the GoreSphere” (even with such Brutal Death Metal format, with grunts and screams contrasting in a good way, one can hear the influences of classic Death Metal), “Crucified, Gutted, Desecrated” (the fans of CANNIBAL CORPSE will love this one, because the features of the quintet are a real influence for the band here), “Abyss of Impaled Religious Incandescent Torches” (another moment with clear classic Death Metal traces and arrangements, especially on bass guitar and drums) and “Phalaris Bull Seraphic Extermination & Infinite Carnage” are the right ones for the first listen, and they depict as the quartet has potential to grow. It’s just a matter of maturing.

“GoreSphere” is a good release, but as shows and rehearsals can lapidate things, more of them will set things for CERCENATORY.