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Last Retch - Sadism And Severed Heads - Reviewed By allaroundmetal! Wednesday December 14 2022, 10:06 PM

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Last Retch - Sadism And Severed Heads - Reviewed By allaroundmetal ! Check it out here at this link: https://allaroundmetal.com/component/content/article/26-releases/9800-sufficiente-la-prima-prova-su-lunga-distanza-dei-last-retch

After a demo released last year, the Canadians Last Retch have already released their debut album - via CDN Records - a quartet from Ontario who with this "Sadism and Severed Heads" offer us a work that brings together different schools of thought in the Death Metal field. Right from the start - between the name of the band, the title of the album and the cover - there is very little doubt that the main influence of Last Retch is Cannibal Corpse (the final part of "Doomraider" is a real homage to the sonority of the Cannibals), but Ours proves to be able to move without problems also in other directions, whether they are the martial tones of the Bolt Thrower or the outbursts of the old Swedish school of the Entombed, also passing through certain passages of pure 'autopsy' sound rottenness. Then quite immediately you hear how the singer Finlay Blakelock studied Chris Barnes' style to perfection (that of the old Cannibal Corpse works, not the caricature of himself that we hear today in Six Feet Under): we can hear clear examples in "Cannibals of Tuma" and in the title track... and not that the other songs are less. Thanks to a limited duration of both the songs and the general one (not even half an hour), "Sadism and Severed Heads" is a record that can be listened to, while leaving nothing memorable in the end; as much as Last Retch show that they know how to handle the proposed matter, in the end this debut album of theirs remains a rather "scholastic" record: it will certainly be able to give you half an hour of discreet entertainment, but essentially no more than this. - allaroundmetal

Release Date: September 23, 2022

FFO: Cannibal Corpse, Entombed, Bolt Thrower

Location: Hamilton Ontario, Canada

Label: CDN Records

Short Bio: Last Retch is a Death Metal band from Hamilton, Ontario. Drawing on influences such as Bolt Thrower, Cannibal Corpse and Entombed, Last Retch plays a stripped-back brand of old school death metal. Simple riffs, short songs, and dual chainsaw guitars define their take on the classic death metal sounds of the 90s.

The debut album "Sadism and Severed Heads" will be released on September 23, 2022 on CDN Records. 9 tracks of old school death. CDs and Tapes will be available. Visit the CDN records website or https://lastretch.bandcamp.com/ for physical copies.

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