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Italy's Undead Creep this year releases their debut full length album, The Ever-Burning Torch and listening to them for the very first time, I made the honest mistake of thinking that they hail from Sweden, and it's easy to see why once the album begins. The familiar, crusty tone of the guitars greet the listener as the album opens with Immolated for Reincarnation, complete with the drumming style of David and the vocals of Sandro, instantly transporting the listener to Sweden, where bands like Entombed reigned.

There is a nice balance of different musical styles on the album, though the foundation that Undead Creep has built on is undoubtedly Swedish death metal. For example, the introductory riffs on songs like Surrounded by Tombs display the thrash metal influences that they have included in their songwriting. Eternal Rest is also an excellent example of the variations that the band has included, with a heavy doom-like section, a melodic guitar solo in the middle of the track, and ending the track on a high note with a fast, thrashy section. Furthermore, the interlude track On Blackened Mountains also displayed rare moments of calm, with the usage of acoustic guitars.

Throughout the album, the atmosphere is dark, shrouded by the heavy usage of keyboards, which at times tend to border on excessive. There are also considerably few guitar solos throughout the album, but when they do appear these are brilliant, and are usually melodic such as those on Surrounded by Tombs, though they admittedly sound slightly out of place in the raw and unpolished production job of the album, and also in terms of the musical style. For example, the short lead guitar solo on God's Disdain sounded more like it could come off a power metal album rather than a Swedish death metal track, and the polished and soaring tone of the guitar certainly stuck out like a sore thumb. On top of that, the drumming on some of the tracks also almost sound out-of-sync, creating a slightly sloppy effect, though this at time serves to bring out the primitiveness of the execution style.

There is also the included demo self-titled demo on the album, and this helps listeners to track the progress of the band thus far, though nothing much has changed between the songs on the demo and that on the full length album. Undead Creep, with The Ever-Burning Torch, has displayed the borderless characteristic of metal genres, and that decent old school Swedish-styled death metal can also come from outside of Sweden.