Interment – Into the Crypts of Blasphemy (2010)

We love Death Metal and we greatly enjoy bands from the good old days like Grave, Entombed, Dismember, etc., so when we got Interment’s promo we got excited. Interment formed 22 years ago in Sweden when all the glorious Swedish Death Metal movement was going down, after a few demos they broke up never to be heard from again until 2007.

Fast-forward to 2010 and they are finally releasing their first full-length “Into the Crypts of Blasphemy”, with some members of the band having played in Centinex and still play in Demonical, we can only foresee a very impressive band…. Well this is not the case since in our educated opinion this album blows from start till end.

Having the same gritty low-fi sound that Death Metal albums has in the early 90’s, “Into the Crypts of Blasphemy” is a very good reminder for us why some bands never made it out of the garage and do not deserve to record an album. Yes, Interment is raw, brutal, but it’s also completely out-dated and unimaginative, everything they show in this album is already been done by everybody else that went on to record albums during the 90’s.

Luckily for us, this release is only 36 minutes and allows us to finish up quickly this review and move on to bigger and better things. The band has the ‘old-school’ sound all right, but with such an impressive line-up we expected way, way, way, better than this crappy album that sounds like what some kiddies put together band in the early days of Swedish DM. There is nothing of substance here besides the nostalgia behind the band’s sound. So we recommend you avoid this at all costs, just get an old (and GOOD) Grave or Entombed CD from the bargain bin and you are set.

Release: August 2nd, 2010

Country: Sweden