Resurgency – False Enlightenment (2012)

Formed back in 2009, today we have Resurgency’s debut full-length release titled “False Enlightenment”. Targeted directly to fans of chugging Death Metal, this Greek band delivers 40+ minutes of excellent neck-breaking music that will have you moshing since the first song. Hellthrasher Productions again amazes us with a great ear for bands that play devastating Death Metal but do not fall in the repetitiveness and dullness that plagues other ‘bands’ these days.

The band quickly gets down to business with the hectic “Craniums of Slain Disciples”. “Ending the Beginning” quickly moves into faster territory with crushing drum patterns, tight riffs, and subhuman growls (just what the doctor ordered). With the perfect tempo, we particularly enjoy “Black Holes of Antiverse”, a very crushing track that feels like a slow punch in the face. For the fans of blast-beats and brutal songs, “Dark Revival” has that aggressive feeling of bands like Broken Hope and Suffocation, thanks to the pulsating bass guitar line and intricate riffing.

Usually by the fourth song we are fed up with a DM release, but with “False Enlightenment” the band changes things up a bit with an atmospheric intro to the track before the killer drums kick in. Our favorite track in this release is “Hideous Premonition” and its excellent ‘melodic’ passages. While “Where Despair Dominates”, “Mouth of Hades”, and “Psychosis” keep pummeling at your speakers, the closing track “Binding Is Fatal” completes this release with a very good showing of the extreme vocals of John P. surrounded by interweaving melodic and aggressive guitars (courtesy of George K).

“False Enlightenment” is one of those DM albums that make you constantly want to headbang. Resurgency has a very diverse repertoire of riffs and they are not afraid of using them. We particularly enjoyed that the band is not trying just to mimic somebody is and they just do their own thing and create very destructive music. If you are a Death Metal fan, you can’t afford to not get this release.

Release: June 15th, 2012

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Greece