Disguised Malignance - Entering The Gateways [CD]

Hailing from Helsinki, Finland, Prosthetic Records signees DISGUISED MALIGNANCE will be releasing their forthcoming debut album, Entering the Gateways, on September 29. The Finnish death metal group's inaugural full-length sees DISGUISED MALIGNANCE settling into a full line-up for the first time in their four year history, with Entering the Gateways mining the depths of ontological horror and celestial transcendence. Inspired heavily by Lovecraftian horror and armed with an esoterically eldritch unease at the simultaneously unknown and unknowable, Enter the Gateways oscillates between the physical and the otherworldly throughout its 34 minute runtime. DISGUISED MALIGNANCE's ambitions to take death metal's elemental parts and impart their own verve and voice into the genre are plain to see on their first full-length, and it's a testament to their natural talents that Enter the Gateways stands as a bold introduction to the band.