Six Feet Under Death Rituals CD

Six Feet Under: Chris Barnes (vocals); Steve Swanson (guitar); Terry Butler (bass instrument); Greg Gall (drums).
Audio Mixers: Chris Carroll ; Tony Wright; James Musshorn; Ian Blanch.
Arranger: Chris Barnes .
Tampa's Six Feet Under lashes out with its 10th studio release of vicious, groove-based death metal. Consisting of 13 tracks of some of the rawest, chunky mid-tempo death anthems this side of the grave, DEATH RITUALS is Six Feet Under's most consistent album to date. Always planting tongue firmly in cheek, Six Feet Under also provides a bludgeoning cover of Mötley Crüe's "Bastard." Once again with Chris Carroll and Toby Wright engineering and mixing respectively, Six Feet Under unleashes a slab of sinewy sickness that will make every extreme metal fan proud.
Often touted as the last true practitioners of "pure American death metal," Cannibal Corpse vocalist Chris Barnes' 1995 side project has blossomed into a full-time career. On its eighth full-length recording, Six Feet Under does little to ruffle the feathers of the genre it helped to define over the last ten years, but the band's pragmatic, unfussy approach to brutality demands respect, even if it fails to encourage repeated listens. Death Rituals is tight, compact, and blissfully free of muddy reverb and ten-minute epics (anyone wondering what a doom-laden, black metal-ized Motörhead fronted by an "Orc" would sound like, check out "Bastard"). It's also a hastily recorded slab of meat that didn't hang on the hook long enough, but despite an opening quartet of cuts that could have been scraped off of the floor of any old Metal Blade recording session, Death Rituals dabbles in enough unpredictable time signatures "Seed of Filth") and song structures ("Crossroads to Armageddon") that step outside of the standard aggro-metal, kneecap remover template to save itself. ~ James Christopher MongerKerrang (Magazine) (p.56) - "[A] steady, no-holds-barred slab of pounding aggression."