Sometimes, the main thoughts of a writer can be undone. Personally, Big Daddy here is always saying the same thing: you can do an old Metal style, there's nothing wrong with that, but you are risking yourself to do music that will never get so far. The musicians must have in mind that, when you are dealing with old styles of Metal, in any label you want to put your work, you have to put more effort to make you music sounds alive. But North American quartet SENTIENT HORROR is one of those that even following old tendencies, can do a very good work, as we can hear on "Ungodly Forms".

Here you have that traditional way of making and playing Death Metal that became famous in the 90s due the bands from Sweden as ENTOMBED and DISMEMBER on their earlier albums (there are some riffs on the beginning of "Beyond the Curse of Death" that will remind you of something on "Pieces"). But obviously their music has a personality clear in many moments, showing that they are still in an evolutionary process, that they aren't on their final shape yet. And this is good, because the album is really good, with many charming moments. What makes the difference on "Unglodly Forms" is really the production.

Matt Moliti had done a great work, trying to conciliate their musical work (focused in the old way of Death Metal) with a very good sound quality. It sounds really brutal and nasty, but clear and actual, running away from those clones that still try to sound as in the beginning of the 90s. Damian Herring did mixing of the album, and Dan Swanö (this guy is a master of Death Metal recordings) made the mastering. So, with such team, it's obvious why the sound we hear is so good.

On the graphic art, Patrik Tegnander made the cover of the album, and it really recovers the arts we saw in the past, and the layout was done by Brazilian artist Felipe Eregion. Although the album, as I said before, sounds like a band that still is maturing their musical work; you'll find some fine songs on this album. And I'll name the following as their finest moments: the deep and oppressive cut in our ears called "Abyssal Ways" with these jigsaw guitar riffs, the brutal tempos of "Die Decay Devour" (very good vocals, with raw screams that are really amazing), the clear influence from Hardcore that we can hear on "Blood Rot", the deadly attack perpetrated by the rhythmic session on "Splinter the Cross" (bass guitar and drums are really creating a strong, heavy and aggressive basis, where the nasty guitar riffs and solos do a fine exhibition), the bitter and aggressive slow tempos of "Ungodly Forms" (yes, they know how to work on a rhythm that is not so fast, but the level of brutality is really amazing, and once more, bass guitar and drums are doing a very good work), the traditional Death Metal song presented on "A Host of Worms", and the end of the world presented in musical form called "Celestial Carnage", another song that in the beginning shows tempos that aren't as fast as in the greater part of the songs, but soon aggressiveness appears with neck breaking speed and very good guitars once more.

On the "Ungodly Forms", there's a special guest, Thomas Maher, who plays rhythmic guitars and made the artwork for the EP "Beyond the Curse of Death" and for the Single "Splinter the Cross", that are SENTIENT HORROR previous releases (when the band was known as SENTIENT). To end this review, I truly recommend you all to hear this album, because it was done in a way that will take many of you with the first listen.