artist: Summoning Death
title: One Step Beyond
year: 2020
genre: Death Metal

type: Album
label: Chaos Records
language: English
rel. date: 2020-10-31

source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:51:06
size: 123.01MB

rip date: 2024-11-02
source url: https://www.deezer.com/album/454038685

tracklist:

1.  The Devils Laughter                                             5:49
2.  Make Me Not a Witch                                             5:49
3.  The Bride Possessed                                             5:03
4.  Night of the Kill                                               4:33
5.  The Mask                                                        5:29
6.  House of the Dead                                               7:45
7.  The Image of the Death                                          6:56
8.  The Storm                                                       5:54
9.  Silence of the Centuries                                        3:48

release notes:

With a career spawned half a decade ago, Summoning Death created waves
in the Underground scenery with the 2018 release of its first
full-length work. "The House That Screamed" revealed a devastating
dose of Death Metal somberness drinking from the evil fountain of
darkness that is the old-school Finnish and Swedish sound, with a
concept aptly based on old Horror film masterpieces from the 50s and
60s. Now, the time has come for the Mexican quintet to take "One Step
Beyond", presenting the world with yet another purge of utterly
obscure Metal of Death continuing its saga on the visual terror, this
time focusing of TV series from the aforementioned era (masterfully
depicted in John Quevedo Janssens cover artwork).

Picking up where left on the latest album, Summoning Death's sound is
furthering piercing and ferocious, with a production and mixing
superbly capturing the quintessence and venom of the band's inner
core. A clear yet robust and heavy sound definitively traces the
elemental base of the band's audial approach to the dark past of the
early 1990s yet with a contemporary touch that weighs in the
arrangements and performance's favor, creating pieces of effectively
timeless music.

With a new vocalist in Abigail Paz, one is immediately struck by the
vociferous angst, mightily topping the six-string work, a genuine
feast of gargantuan riffs, from slow morbid, bleak gashes to
skull-crushing fast obliterations, this is Death Metal in its purest
and most striking form. The pulsing cadence of bass and drums provide
the energy and momentum to these nine tomes, a rhythmic section that
for the band's defining sound - stripped of over-elaborative features
- sheds a variety and striking sense of dynamics, providing these 50
minutes with the strength of being a stunning experience in morbid
metal without ever tumbling in repetition.

Released through Chaos Records, "One Step Beyond" is a mandatory opus
for any and all devotees of utter Death Metal might, supremely
portraying Summoning Death as a force to be most definitely reckoned
with in nowadays' scene.