### Blood Mortized: The demon, the angel, the disease

#### 24/01/14 || Ironpants

“Mortized: The word one would use to describe a night of wine drinking, including beer and shots until the sun rises.”

You know, here at GD when we plough our way through endless piles of shit, sometimes you feel like giving up. Just throw down your gear, mumble something like “That’s it, I´m outta here!” and strip down naked, go outside in knee-deep snow, standing there with arms stretched out and screaming to the sky – “Whyyyyyy!”.

And sometimes, it´s the other way around. You get your hairy hands on an album that you’ve been waiting for, and you just go “Yesssss!”. And boy, was it a close call this time around. This album is just what I needed to get some life force back. Where do you turn after dissecting shitty demos and folk metal albums? To Swedish death metal of course.

Blood Mortized caught my interest with their album “The key to a black heart”, and I’ve been spinning that sucker from time to time, and I knew that they had a new album coming out, but I forgot about it along the way. Then suddenly… Beep! – up for review – “The demon, the angel, the disease”. Thank you Satan!

Let’s cut to the chase here. There is nothing extra ordinary, or unique being created here, and that is great! -“What?”, yeah, you heard me. Blood Mortized play that classic Swedish death metal you’ve heard before, of course with a more modern touch, but still the same shit you are used to. But they use better riffs, better groove, better vocals and better everything. The thing in this genre nowadays that separate the men from the boys is the songwriting skills, and the ability to pick up a riff and perfect it.

The riff-meisters in this band are Anders Biazzi and Gustav Myrin and the riffs these guys comes up with is groovy, brutal and catchy (mostly), and here is where the divider is placed. To catch my interest there must be that special “something” in the songs that reels me in and gets me going, and there are plenty of such moments on the album. I can give you an example right here so that we are on the same page. Dat riff!

Another thing that must be present, is some diversity and on that subject they make it in the clear also. There are fast songs mixed with doomy songs and also dance-able songs. “Noice terror” brings you up on your feet with that kind of old school driven groove with a “bouncy” riff that gives the song a leverage that few bands manage to create nowadays. The doomy section is represented by “I leave with hate” which contains a beautiful melody sprinkled with sadness, awesome tune.

Vocalist Mattias Parkkila is also one factor that makes this record enjoyable, through the years you become tired of singers that can’t really deliver that punch that you long for, but Matti here is way up high above standard. He packs a brutal pipe and his vocals add a lot to the overall impression.

Session drums on this album are handled by Norwegian cutie pie Brynjar Helgetun, and he is slowly becoming a favorite in my house. There’s no shitting around here, and maybe not the fanciest play you’ve might have heard, but good ´ol Brynjar is a lean, mean, death machine, and he keeps his pottery bashings clean and tight. A solid warrior of the trade.

Yep! This is a good album, and if you consider yourself a death metal head, this should be on your “to-buy-list”. There are ten to the dozen of bands in this beloved style of music of ours that don’t deliver the goods, but you can take my word on that Blood Mortized isn’t one of ‘em, they stand out from the rest in every aspect. The only thing that I can say on the negative side, is that maybe there was one or two songs too much, and that they could have made it an even snappier experience that would have brought it up one or two notches. Still, an easy buy!

Here´s another song for you while you click your way online to order a copy of the album.

- Information
- Released: 2013
- Label: Chaos Records
- Website: Blood Mortized Facebook
- Band
- Mattias Parkkila: vocals
- Anders Biazzi: guitars, bass
- Gustav Myrin: guitars, bass
- Guest
- Brynjar Helgetun: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Bastard
- 02. In the black flames of desolation
- 03. My soul, your flesh
- 04. I am the dead
- 05. Master of pain
- 06. Dysphoria dystopia
- 07. Blessed are the dead
- 08. Blooddrenched stones
- 09. Noiseterror 08
- 10. The barbarian lust
- 11. The demon, the angel, the disease
- 12. I leave with hate