Cabinet

Spawn Of Possession is a brand new quartet (now a quintet) hailing from the depths of Sweden. They started in early 1997 and the direction the band was determined to take was to find sick and unexplored regions within the death metal genre. After playing in other various death metal bands with a more Swedish melodic style they felt that the U.S. type of death metal was calling for them. After a couple of demos, they just released their first album ever Cabinet recorded at Pama Studio 1 in Sweden through Unique Leader Records. The guys just welcomed their new frontman Kelly Izquierdo (former vocalist of Mortal Decay). Spawn Of Possession belongs to the new wave of Swedish death metal that has nothing to do with the great old Swedish school from the early 90s. The band doesn’t sound like all the Gotenburg bands such as Dark Tranquility, In Flames or Divine Souls, but rather like lots of death metal acts from the US such as Monstrosity, Hate Eternal, early Malevolent Creation or even Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse. They indeed play a fast and powerful technical death metal in the sickest Florida style. Songs full of speed, involving riffs, blast beat attacks, smashing bass sounds and aggressive voices. This band is truly technical and blasts you out and mangles you like a damn heavy truck. The technical approach will keep your interest through the whole album. The growling vocals delivered on this album by drummer Dennis Röndum are not too guttural but they might still rip you apart. The guitar riffs on here are heavy as hell and very catchy and the great soloings on this album are very impressive and well worth of mentioning. The guy behind the drumkit is very skillfull and above average. Half of the songs from this album are taken from the two demos. Five out of the ten songs are taken from their demos The Forbidden and Church Of Deviance and the remaining five songs are brand new. Although there is nothing new and shocking on Cabinet , but just well done, intense, heavy and kick ass death metal the way it should be done, it's a damn very good death metal album.