Vinterblot
Bari, Italy

Formed in Bari, Italy in 2008, Vinterblot offer up a deliciously brutal cocktail of European death metal on their debut album for Rising Records Nether Collapse. Smashing together grooves, atmospherics and good old fashioned raging death metal, the beauty of Vinterblot’s sound is that it isn’t so heavy to make it unpalatable to those who are teetering on the edge of the death metal scene. They’ve also managed to add just the right dash of atmospherics to their sound to give it that extra layer – not too over the top to turn it into a circus yet not hidden so deep to be pointless. Of course, when the band hit their stride, as they do quite effortlessly, their sound is still sledgehammer heavy and tracks like Howling Shadow are guaranteed to loosen the neck muscles of any fan of the underground death metal scene with their crunchy, catchy delivery. Nether Collapse is out through Rising Records on 30th January 2012.

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Review by Graham Finney