Danish band Shadowspawn presents their fourth full-length album. After a stint at Emanzipation Productions where they released their previous two records, they are back at Via Nocturna, who also put out their debut, ‘Hope Lies Dormant’.
Even though it carries a Death/Thrash tag, to me it mostly sounds like a mid-tempo Death Metal band, mixing mid-tempo grooves with typical Swedish melody lines. That quickly brings to mind the later mid-tempo Hypocrisy, with At The Gates/The Haunted Bjöler melodies, played in the Illdisposed style somewhere between ‘1-800 Vindication’ and ‘To Those Who Walk Behind Us’.
It is adequately executed, though it could be a bit blunter for my taste.
