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DECREPIT BIRTH is a riff crazy technical death metal band, and these guys really stand out with what they're doing.  With an abundance technical metal bands out there right now, you could say that many of them are “over-the-top” - which is fine sometimes, but in the end of all the tech / math frenzy, the “metal” factor almost appears to be lost within the bpm.  DECREPIT BIRTH adds in more of the “metal” factor than most of these other technical death metal bands.  They have a bunch of infectious Swedish death metal, and have more than enough shredding guitar solos for any metal guitar fanatic to be pleased.  Their l... (read more)

Most deathcore bands (and modern death metal bands for that matter) focus on being the fastest, or the heaviest, or the most sinister band that they can be, but that doesn't always result in a very listenable experience.  It all starts to bleed together.  In fact, rather than a full LP, I feel that EPs are the most effective way of going about releasing most metal, because the music can be so abrasive that by track five or six track, you lose interest.  A listener can only take so many blastbeats and breakdowns.  With their latest offering Gates of Punishment, Rose Funeral doesn't come close to reinventing the wheel, but they implement little breathers into... (read more)