REVIEW: THE NEW PLAGUE - SHACKLED AND ENSLAVED

 

THE NEW PLAGUE - SHACKLED AND ENSLAVED (Independent, 2001)

Produced by The New Plague

Recorded at Digit Sound Studio

Artwork by Adam Whitley and Shaun Lipsmeyer

Tracks: 1- World Annihilation, 2- Within, 3- Stormbringer, 4- Life, Death and the Abyss, 5- New Worlds, 6- The Great Unknown, 7- Pleasure Thru Pain, 8- Cult of the Dragon, 9- Pazuzu, 10- I Am Misanthrope

This is a band of old school death metal. The music of the New Plague is a blast of fury in the vein of old Morbid Angel, Left Hand Path-era Entombed and also some Venom. So as you may see this is a devastating band. There are certain thrash influences here and there too in their music. Every track here is conceived to be a deathly and powerful discharge. They are fast and brutal with great work of guitarist and drummer (great double bass drumming) who seem to be very well rehearsed and really tight (there are excellent bass passages in "Within" for example at 1:44). The vocals are guttural and fit the music that The New Plague makes perfectly adding more brutality to this powerful trio. Fans of brutal and technical death metal will surely like this one.

Favorite tracks: "Pleasure Thru Pain", "World Annihilation" and "The Great Unknown".

Contact: www.thenewplague.com