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  Pete Brown

  Weirdly, a lot of brutal death metal tends to function as a sort of ambient music for me. The wall-of-sound production, the constant drums, the utterly inscrutable death-grunt vocals… it all becomes kind of atmospheric for me and fades into the background. That's not a complaint, mind you.

  And that is what I thought this album was for the first few tracks. At about the halfway point, though, Embittered starts changing things up. The structures become more complex and dynamic, like other sub-genres are scratching at the doors, asking to be let in.

  I ended up liking this album, but it's a little strange. It's almost like there are two different albums (or even two different bands) interleaved here. It ends up working, though; Embittered is a band I will be keeping an eye on, I think.