Mammoth Grinder – Undying Spectral Resonance (Review)

Mammoth Grinder are a death metal band from the US and this is their latest EP.

It has been a long six years since 2018’s Cosmic Crypt, but Mammoth Grinder have once again dragged themselves out from their tombs and are ready to lay waste once more. Bringing with them 14 minutes of new music in the form of Undying Spectral Resonance, Mammoth Grinder’s reappearance is brief, but impactful.

The band have a new lineup, (including a guitarist from Exhumed/ex-Noisem), but Undying Spectral Resonance was apparently recorded solo by the only remaining member. Well, he’s done a damn good job.

It’s great to hear Mammoth Grinder’s crust-fuelled old-school death metal once more. Corpse of Divinant reintroduces us to Mammoth Grinder’s filthy style, storming out of the gates with an army of brutality at its heels. The title track then proceeds to stomp around with huge armour-clad boots, crushing all around it.

Forward momentum is then lost though as the longest track – Call from the Frozen Styx – is an atmospheric interlude. It’s well-rendered and works in and of itself, but breaks the flow of the attack just as it was gathering up steam, and is ultimately as disposable as all such tracks are.

Decrease the Peace gets the assault back on course though, and is an absolute old-school death metal monster that’s probably the best song here. The EP closes with the rampaging Obsessed with Death, ending the release in a potent eruption of violence. Good stuff.

The return of Mammoth Grinder is a (mostly) triumphant one. The four actual songs on this EP bode very well for the future, and offer up a brief, but extremely enjoyable hit of death metal nastiness.

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