Like most of nowadays death metal, this album has its moments, but fundamentally, is a speed metal and heavy metal hybrid dressed up as death metal. Like rock music, it focuses on establishing tonal centers and then using fills around those to keep its riffs together, instead of getting fully chromatic and using phrasal, through-composed music.
The riffs on Resurgence generally focus on lots of repetitive downstroking, aiming to hammer home the root note, and then the band layers vocals and melodic lead guitars over that, but these songs have both very little tonal motion and almost no phrasal riffs, which gives them a static nature; songs do not evolve, but rotate around an exchange between riffs and a chorus.
Resurgence offends no one and maintains enough edge to draw in a mainstream audience, but it will not hold up to repeated listens.
Tags: death metal, massacre
This band is a joke now with the line-up changes and Kam Lee the drama queen. Even if this come-back is listenable, it remains a fucking joke.
Maybe, but the big point is that the album is not great, nor really death metal. All the line-up changes and drama would not matter if the album was good, and similarly, had those not occurred, this album still would not be good.
Meh, From Beyond wasn’t that good either. It sounded like someone spilled Pantera in Leprosy
From Beyond is great. But it should have been released in 1987. A good mix of Slayer and Celtic Frost.
Do not hear any Pantera in it.