This is my first encounter with the Bulgarian band Enthrallment, though I was quite excited when I threw this disc in the player, as judging from the title of the album, I expected a good attack of gory death metal, and for once my prejudice won and I got what I expected.
Heavy and grinding old school inspired death metal, with a modern touch in form of technical parts and insanely blasting drums mixed with groovy breakdowns. The attack from the guitars are good and well-weighed, there are some good riffs here and there, and some more classic and expected at other places, but the overall impression is quite positive. The compositions are also quite well made, there are a lot of good hooks, which makes the record quite catchy and easy to get into. The rhythm patters utilized on the songs are great and grooves often a lot and screams for a good deal of extreme headbanging. The overall drumming on "Smashed Brain Collection" is solid and well alternated and hard hitting as hell and once in a while very fast.
I would be lying if I said Enthrallment was offering something new to the death metal scene, that is not their business, they are here to deliver good and well-tried recipes and they do that job very good. They do have their own sound and approach and are working towards their own expression. If you enjoy old school death metal with a gory touch, with some grooves and overall brutal as fuck, Enthrallment will brutalize your world when you give them a chance.
And as a bonus there is a video part of the release as well, we get the video clip for ‘Awaiting The Death’ which is a quite okay standard metal video, not much more to say about that. And then a part of a live gig from ‘05 in Blagovest, decent sound quality and the picture is decent as well, a good slap of death metal and a bit of Deicide and Six Feet Under worship and a lesson in how well the audience can be handled, quite interesting, and the bonus makes the release more than worth the money, a good and solid release!
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AUTHOR: Nocturnal DK
A Danish metalhead on the way to become old, enjoys most types of metal, though brutality and darkness are mostly preferred, and too modern takes on metal are not always positively looked upon. Have been writing about metal for 10 years in own and at other publications as Fishcomcollective, Ancient Ceremonies, Northern Shadows and now Corazine and the upcoming Terror Propaganda (might have forgotten a few, come and kick my arse!).