Label - MNRK Heavy
Release Date - 16th June 2023
Words - Tony Bliss
Impressing the death metal world across the board with 2019’s Wretched Illusion’s, Creeping Death have long since confirmed (with considerable fury) that they are zealous advocates of Sweden’s legendary buzzsaw bluster. However, the Texans stand a good few leagues apart from the countless other HM-2 devotees the world over, their ruthlessly direct songwriting approach clearly informed by the seminal likes of Grave and early Sepultura and underpinned by an extra nitro-boost of high-velocity thrash and double-dipped in subterranean terror. Boundless Domain repeats the trick, only this time with everything enhanced and honed into a scalpel-keen killing machine.
Indeed, any of those unsure on this band's potential will be choking on their teeth mere seconds into the opening title track, five and a half minutes of excoriating blood-lust which bulges with dynamic flair and rhythmic destruction. Moving forward, Creeping Death embark on the sort of thoroughly satisfying death metal journey we would expect from bands thrice their age and experience, these ten tracks benefiting from a pitch-perfect production job courtesy of Killswitch Engage man and mixing board legend Adam Dutkiewicz, who toes the line nicely between contemporary crunch and old-school filth.
From the slam-tinged powder keg of ‘Looming’ and ‘Cursed’s ferocious, heads down and sword aloft rampage, the whole heat-blasted shebang is delivered with unnerving levels of aggression, and, from what we can only imagine given the joyously ‘come and have a go if you think your metal enough’ approach of Boundless Domain, a big shit-eating grin on the bands collective faces. Just listen to the hideous, blast-ridden declaration of war that is ‘The Common Breed’ - or ‘Remnants Of The Old Gods’ and its gruesome multi-limbed attack - for evidence that Creeping Death operate with the very spirit of the death metal underground coursing through their veins. With Texas pretty much the capital of American brutality right now, it’s of little surprise that Boundless Domain reeks of victory.
8/10
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