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Vermin
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A Nihilistic Swarm
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Deity Down Records
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Having seen these guys live a couple of times and having heard their demo I have to admit I was quite impressed when I popped in their debut full-length “A Nihilistic Swarm”. I knew these guys were into brutal and fairly technical death metal but on this album they’ve surpassed themselves on the technical level. At least it seems that way. When listening properly, the Cephalic Carnage and The Dillinger Escape Plan like mathematical approach within the songs do come across as technical, but it actually isn’t that technical within Vermin’s music. Nevertheless it all gives the overall compositions a nice touch, because this basically is fast brutal death metal, just spiced up with some weird breaks and so on. Yes, you do have to play this kind of music tight as fuck and on this CD Vermin does so quite right. What I’m trying to get across is that on first notice this album seems like a complex thing, which it is not. That doesn’t mean this album sucks, ‘cause it doesn’t. I really can hear the progress these guys have made over the last couple of years. With 17 tracks you get an album worth the money and besides the audio tracks you also get a video of the song ‘Falling Deathwards’ and a video of the actual recordings, that were done at Excess. Sound wise it is a good album and musically it is quite fresh. So all in all I would say Vermin’s achievements have been good and I do think this album will put them on the map as a promising death metal act.
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Pim Blankenstein
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Pantheon I
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Worlds I Create
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Tenet
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Sovereign
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Arkaea
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Years In The Darkness
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Rape Pillage and Burn
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Songs Of Death...Songs Of Hell
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Cruciamentum
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Convocation of Crawling Chaos
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Bloodsin
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Tales from the Dissecting Table
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The Darkest Red
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Destroy & Rebuild
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Killswitch Engage
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Killswitch Engage
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Obituary
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Darkest Day
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