Gonna keep this one short and sweet for a change of pace !
BUY THIS CD NOW, and you should be ashamed for not having it already!
There that felt good, now lemme get down to details. I've heard it time and time again, that the Christian Death Metal scene does not exist, and that there is not good Christian Death Metal. Well to the best of my knowledge, only one of the bands on this CD still is around, but never the less this CD is KILLER Christian Death metal.
There is nothing here for the faint of heart. Blistering aggressive music is all you get pummelled with from start to finish. If I were listing the bands in order of my personal preference, I would list them as, DISENCUMBRANCE, OBLITERATION, OBLATION, EVISCERATION, and finally the single live Flesh Walker track (YES that's right that death metal band from down under that may have heard of has a live track here.)
The music of Flesh Walker is certainly interesting and to have heard a real recording of them might have been nice, but the live track suffers a lot from production and well I usually skip this track.
All in all as I said to start it up, you need this CD more than you can imagine.
9.5/10
Other coverage for this album
HM Magazine #76Reviewed by Doug Van PeltHere's a Cross Rhythms sampler disc, put out by someone who knows extreme music - Alan Tregoning, who moved to Dallas from Australia 5 or 6 years ago to join Oblation. That's death metal loyalty! Here we get to feast on some meaty and solid metal. We get 4 tracks by Obliteration, 3 by Evisceration, 3 by Disencumbrance, 4 by Oblation, and a live track from Alan's old Aussie band - Flesh Walker.…The Phantom Tollbooth 1999Reviewed by Chris KingCross Rhythms Music (CRM) has done the extreme Christian metal underground a big favor in releasing this compilation. Chords of the Grave is essentially the re-release of demos by four different death metal bands. Obliteration starts the compilation off with a killer, brutal death metal sound. Despite not breaking much new ground, their classic American death metal growling and playing is done…Dead Zine 1998Reviewed by NecRoSarXFriends. Countrymen. Fellow metalheads. Lend me your rears. So that this CD may soundly kick them hard, fast and continuously... For those of you who have yet to assimilate this compilation into your extreme metal collection, hang your collective heads in SHAME. For this one CD, by its very existence, represents the audio equivalent of the dead rising from the grave. No joke. All four of these…Dead Zine 1998Reviewed by FetusChords of the Grave is my new kitty, get your own! Four (OK 5, kind of) bands in one tidy package, and as often as the "death" name is falsely slapped on anybody with distortion, everybody reeks of death here, no question. Unfortunately, "death" seems to be the fitting term because all of the bands are no longer (the B in Bummer.) OBLITERATION (4 tracks) Why did these guys change their sound when…Dead Zine 1998Reviewed by FletchCross Rhythms scores big with this release. Just buy it and find out why. If you haven't already, you are missing out and are way behind. If you have ever thought to yourself, "Boy I wish there was some more really good Christian death metal out there," your prayer has just been answered. All four bands, five if you count the bonus track, play top-notch death metal. Let's break this cd by the…Similar sounding releases
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