I’m not familiar with Finland’s Enragement, but a former writer, K Allred, enjoyed their last effort, 2022s, Atrocities, and he is in a pretty fine death metal band (Crungus), so I trust his opinion.

And this sounds nothing like typical cavernous Finnish death metal. This is a very European-meets-American-sounding death metal that covers all the genres’ good stuff in spades. Think Aborted, Benighted, or Blood Red Throne meets Dying Fetus or Cannibal Corpse. It’s groovy, it’s blasty, it’s technical, it’s grindy, it’s catchy, it’s slammy. It’s top-notch.

Armed with a stellar production to match the near-perfect death metal and a perfectly powerful blend of growls and screams, Extinguish All Existence hits all the spots, scratches all the itches that death metal fans want. The 10 songs all deliver an ample mix of hefty fucking grooves and shrill blasts such as “Parasitic Ingress”, “Pathogenesis”, “Abyssal Hellscapes”, and “Harbingers of Degradation “, and that’s just in the album’s first half. And every song hits pretty fucking hard, making the whole album enjoyable from start to finish.

Of course, personally, as I prefer in most of my death metal, the slower, groovier, lumbering moments catch my ear more, but Enragement does a really good job of making sure all the tracks cover all the bases. There isn’t really a purely slow song or a simple all-blasting song.

And the album’s back end is as good as the front end (other than maybe “Vesuvius”) with “Hypercarnivorous”, “Insectiferous Abomination “, and the closing title track. Another winner from Transcending Obscurity, who seem to be kicking out quality albums on 2025 at a ridiculous clip.

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