Centinex: World Declension

Expect some fearsome and huge sounds on the eighth and latest CD from Sweden's death/thrash metal merchants Centinex. World Declension sports a fantastic production job by Jonas Kjellgren and the Black Lounge Studio, which perfectly enhances the power, technical virtuosity, and melodic sensibilities of the band. This is a leaner and meaner Centinex, who fully embrace their melodic death metal heritage on this latest release and perhaps have come up with their shining moment to date.

The CD is broken down into two parts, "Chapter 1-Visions of Armageddon" and "Chapter 2-Earth Inferno", and each part contains a handful of songs/sections. There's no shortage of mammoth guitar riffs from the team of Jonas Kjellgren and Johan Ahlburg, who plow through songs like "As Legions Come" and "Flesh is Fragile" with plenty of muscle and technical precision. The vocals of Johan Jansson are some of the best in the business, dripping with hatred and intensity, and the rhythm section of bassist Martin Schulman and drummer Ronnie Bergerstal are almost machine-like.

World Declension is a major statement from a true force not only on the Swedish death metal scene but in all of metal itself. The tightness of the band is at an all-time high here, and fans of technical, brutal metal sounds will revel in the monstrous and intricate nature of this album. At 38 minutes the album is rather short, but honestly, that surely doesn't take away from the fact that it's one hell of a hot metal album.

Track Listing
Chapter 1-Visions of Armageddon
1) Dawn Rising
2) Purgatorial Overdrive
3) The Destroyer
4) As Legions Come
5) Sworn
Chapter 2-Earth Inferno
6) Synthetic Sin Zero
7) Flesh is Fragile
8) Wretched Cut
9) Deconstruction Macabre

Added: February 5th 2006
Reviewer: Pete Pardo
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