Artist: Disguised Malignance
Country: Finland
Label: Self-Released
Formats: Digital demo
Year: 2023
Disguised Malignance is a relatively new band from Helsinki, Finland. Some of the young band members have already been featured on our pages with a review for a demo of their other band Azatoth. Though Disguised Malignance is also a Death Metal band drawing influences from the earliest bands in the genre, it sounds distinctly different.
After a short intro, the band offers two new songs and a Morbid Angel cover (‘Maze Of Torment’). The addition of the Morbid Angel song is telling for what to expect from these young guys: rather intelligent and well-written Death Metal with loads of twists in riffs and leads. Its quite muffled sound and snappy snare drum makes the music sound even more authentic and, compared to their earlier demo, from 2021, these new songs are a tremendous step up in terms of quality. Not only the song writing in itself or their individual musicianship but also their sense for atmosphere has greatly been developed over the course of those two years.
To top things off nicely, the Lovecraftian cover is what you can consider the icing on proverbial Death Metal cake. Any straight-faced Death Metal fan with a penchant for well-played and likeable Death Metal in the vein of Morbid Angel should definitely turn to these young Finns.
