It might come as a cliché, but nothing can escape the fact that society makes us what we are, meaning that our deeds, at least parts of them, have an overall influence on interactions with the commonwealth. Becoming a negative figure, might be a direct result of a crumbling social infrastructure; think about the biblical time with the burning Sodom and Gomorrah, city of sin, of killers and who knows how much filth. Sick society forms its own protagonists and messengers of death. I found this theme as quite deep, and also a highly approachable. Crafting a modernized form of Death Metal, to some extent derived by the premature flame of early 90's Melodic Death Metal, yet also by American Groove Metal, which gradually shaped current Swedish Death Metal forsaking its old school version out the door, I had a toss with the Swedish DEATHQUINTET and their continued legacy of blood and death, "Godwork", via I Hate Records. Death Metal surely doesn't sound as it was before, and I can't admit that this here version is that prodigious, but I was interested.

Similar to the ongoing degradation of the social order, DEATHQUINTET, in their own Gothic emphasized style of modern Death disposition, achieve a solid base of music, creating a kind of material that I estimate to be quite diverse with its riffing, darkly echoed and even exploratory towards various horizons at times. The additions of Tomas Lindberg (AT THE GATES), Roberth Karlsson (SCAR SYMMETRY), Mathias Lillmåns (FINNTROLL) and Joakim Göthberg (DIMENSION ZERO) as guest vocalists actually made quite an impression and hefty influenced on the overall aura of the material and its undeviating attitude. Can't ignore that on several occurrences that groovy weighty music turned out to be a little stale, reeking from sounds of band that is still looking for its identity in someplace, yet there is a still something burning between the lines of chaos, attempts to be creative, brutal but in a fine degree that would gather more listeners on board to the murderous ship. The flamboyant "Cross My Heart" portrayed a quite a classic Metal lead guitar soloing that shredded through my senses, and a hotchpotch of rhythm guitar riffery with an impressive vocal work. "Crawl On Your Feet" and "Broken Hands" are exactly how Death Metal sounds nowadays on its current form with Americanized aggressive groove patch, just tad amount of inspiring catchiness and a reflective murky ambiance to inflict their pain.

No doubt that there is a scent of uniqueness to this release, I guess that it is on its way to become something bigger than it is now; it is another step of development to become a stimulating heritage. As a fan of the old guard of the Swedish Death Metal scene, melodic or not, I was a little puzzled by this release. "Godwork" is not as it states, yet I must articulate that its essence is an adequate prospect of Death Metal work. Check it out.