Band's List Death Metal Volturyon Coordinated Mutilation

Swedish death metal band Volturyon returns this year with the follow up to their 2008 album, Blood Cure, and is aptly titled Coordinated Mutilation, with the brutality and the insanity that accompanies.

The album opens with a face-ripping growl by vocalist Olle, a slap in the face for bands who choose to have pretentious introductory tracks and instead choosing to cut to the chase as the band breaks into their frenzy death metal attack. The tight rhythm section keeps up with the intensity, never failing even with the constant and seemingly random shifts in the time signature, already present on the opening track, Bloodsoaked Solution. The crazy shifts in time signatures also continue throughout the album, with songs such as Euphoria Through Execution bringing to mind bands like Meshuggah. As evident from later tracks, this will not be the only means of display of technical prowess by the band. For example, the opening riff of Savage Gluttony, and the complex, chaotic yet organised and slick guitar riffs and solos that are present throughout the album, such as the mixing of pinch-harmonics in the riffs where least expected all add up to the entire Volturyon experience.

While most technical death metal bands choose to display their prowess through continuous technical wankery (bands such as Necrophagist come to mind instantly), Volturyon hasn't forgotten to inject the element of fun and old school into their music, making Coordinated Mutilation a thoroughly enjoyable listen. Of course, this does not go to discrediting the founders of tech-death as their idea of fun could have very possibly been to squeeze as many different forms of technical expression as possible in an album.