This is the second full length album from Germany’s Graveyard Ghoul, who specialise in primitive Death Metal of the ugliest type.
This is Old-School to the chewed-on bone but don’t let that fool you into thinking it has nothing to offer. This album contains 31 minutes worth of thoroughly enjoyable romps through the graveyard.
If you take Autopsy as the starting point you’re in a good place, and Graveyard Ghoul embody their Death Metal ideals to perfection.
The songs use the guitars well and have a penchant for the slower, doomier riffs as well as the faster, more brutal parts.
Harking back to a pre-sanitised/sterilised Death Metal era, The Living Cemetery is completely untouched by any and all trends and corruptions of the genre that have occurred through the years.
It’s with hand on gravestone that I firmly recommend you add this album to your collection.
Wonderbox Metal 