By:
Daniel Jackson
Album Type: Full Length
Date Released: 1/4/2016
Label: Pulverised Records
/
Dark
Descent Records (North America)
Scent
of the Buried’ strikes an excellent balance between thrashing speed and
grinding riffs, and pulling the reins in on the tempo as needed for the sake of
variety. Though it is very by-the-book,
it’s done so well that you can’t even really call that a knock against it.
Instead, it’d be more accurate to say that the album is proof that if you do a
basic formula well enough, it’s more than enough to compete with flashier
albums built on a flimsier foundation, stylistically.
‘Scent of the Buried’ CD//DD track listing:
1.
Death And Decay
2.
Sinister Incantation
3.
Chalice Of Death
4.
Repugnant Funeral
5.
Scent Of The Buried
6.
Rise Of The Dead
7.
Unholy Upheaval
8.
Dawn Of Blasphemy
9.
Skullcrushing Carnage
10.
Nailed To The Grave
Interment is:
Johan
Jansson | Guitar,Vocals
Torbjörn
Brynedal | Guitars
Allan
Lundholm | Bass
Kennet
Englund | Drums
The Review:
If
there’s one thing there isn’t a shortage of in 2016 and it’s bands with that
early 90s Stockholm/Sunlight Studio sound. A lot of its popularity comes from
hardcore influenced bands seeking to use that sound to give their bands a new
or different dimension (e.g. Trap Them, Black Breath,
or NAILS), but there are plenty of newer bands
seeking to relive a glory period they had no chance of being a part of the
first time around, due to age or some other factor. For the most part, a lot of
those efforts fall short of the mark, with style over substance being a
frequent concern. Thankfully there are bands like Interment
who are still around to remind everyone that a classic sound can be done the
right way, though they have the added benefit of being a part of the first
wave.
Interment released three
demos from 1991 to 1994, which in retrospect offer a similarly high level of
quality to the bigger bands of the era. Johan Jansson and Kennet Englund moved
on to bands like Uncanny, Dellamorte,
Centinex, and Demonical. Once Interment was resurrected in 2007, the band started life
anew through a series of compilations and split releases and releasing a
well-received full length album in 2010, ‘Into
the Crypts of Blasphemy’. Bringing us to 2016 and ‘Scent of the Buried’.
From
a stylistic standpoint, the album doesn’t really offer anything you haven’t
heard before. It’s completely indebted and dedicated to the Stockholm sound of
the early 90s (though the band’s home of Avesta is roughly two hours drive from
Stockholm itself). The album was even recorded in the famed Sunlight Studio
itself with Tomas Skogsberg at the helm. With all of the ancillary details in
order, all that’s left is for the music to come through, which it absolutely
does. ‘Scent of the Buried’ strikes
an excellent balance between thrashing speed and grinding riffs, and pulling
the reins in on the tempo as needed for the sake of variety.
With
as much of this particular death metal style as there is right now, it’d be a
real shame if this album got lost in the shuffle. It sounds massive, and it’s
absolutely a top-tier example of the genre, with its only real drawback being
that it comes out at a time when the market is flooded with similar, though
inferior bands. Though ‘Scent Of The
Buried’ is very by-the-book, it’s done so well that you can’t even really
call that a knock against it. Instead, it’d be more accurate to say that the
album is proof that if you do a basic formula well enough, it’s more than
enough to compete with flashier albums built on a flimsier foundation,
stylistically.
Band info: Facebook
