Endseeker – Global Worming (Review)

This is the fourth album from German death metal band Endseeker.

Endseeker are a band that are very easy for me to like. Despite cooling on the Swedish death metal style over the years, I fail to be indifferent to Endseeker’s crushing assault. Both 2019’s The Harvest and 2021’s Mount Carcass were thoroughly enjoyable examples of the style, so will Global Worming follow in their thunderous footsteps?

Yep, pretty much. Let’s dive in.

I greatly appreciate it when bands don’t waste time with pointless intros and just get straight to the action, which is exactly what the opening title track does. No frills, no messing around, it delivers four minutes of raging death metal heaviness. It’s fierce and brutal, and draped in macabre melodies and catchy songwriting. Yes, this is what I want from Endseeker.

The eight songs that follow are cut from the same cloth, delivering a strong collection of tracks that maim, burn, and kill everything around them. Endseeker’s approach to death metal is professionally crafted and well-formed, but thankfully doesn’t lack in passion or menacing darkness because of this. The band know their style well and play it with zeal. These death metal warriors have come to destroy, and destroy they do.

Fashioned from simple, timeless materials, each song is an old-school exemplar of the classic Swedeath style. The music is built on sturdy foundations, and the band know their way around a good chorus. There are plenty of meaty riffs and potent melodies, and the drumming keeps everything on track. Each song has its own flavour too, which is always something I like to be able to report.

If you’re unconvinced by this sort of thing I doubt Global Worming will convince you otherwise, but it’s such a fun, enjoyable romp through the field of chainsaws that the band work in that it’s hard to imagine anyone outright disliking this.

Global Warming is once again a solid and enjoyable record from this skilled group. Endseeker continue to be reliable and undefeated, achieving victory once more in the death metal killing arenas.

Highly recommended for fans of bands like Entrails, Asinhell, Bloodbath, Lik, Heads for the Dead, Paganizer, Demonical, etc.