Death metal combined the reductionist musical mechanics of hardcore with the mythological-historical view of epic heavy metal, resulting in a through-composed phrasal narrative which shifted context to reveal new implications of its parts with both grandeur and raging realism.
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Bringing the unrelenting pace of war metal to death metal, Ascendency make stripped-down death metal with melodic chorus riffs and confrontational chromatic rhythm verse riffing in the Scandinavian style. This results in a booming attack and soft upward drift toward organization emerging from chaos.
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