ADRAMELECH (Finland) - Pure Blood Doom LP (2021 Nuclear Abominations Re-issue) on 180gram Reactor Red/Yellow Marble vinyl - limited to only 100 copies worldwide!  Completely remastered and with brand new art by original author. This hard to find rarity finally available in even better shape than when it was originally released back in 1999.  ADRAMELECH are best known for sharing a couple of members with the legendary Finnish masters Demigod.
Comparisons have been drawn to a range of other bands from Massacra to Atrocity - though recorded in 1999, the album sounds more like it is from the first half of the 1990's. Basically, the riffs are in a style halfway between eighties Death Metal and European early-nineties Death, but the song structures (the music's "skeletons", so to speak) are far more complex and epic than either of those with each song having a distinct narrative structure.
This combination of dynamics and "in-your-faceness" is perhaps where the main similarity to Demigod is, but there's a serious difference in tone. Where Demigod is mysterious, Adramelech is martial. The tone of the album is more aggressive and destructive, if so in a disciplined rather than feral way than introspective and metaphysical. "Pure Blood Doom" also incorporates some Black Metal elements Demigod do not - mostly the entire epic, mythological feel.
The reason this works so well is that the complexity doesn't ruin the atmosphere or make it difficult to get into.  Very highly overlooked Finnish Death Metal on display here that demands a more thorough listen to fully appreciate its genius.  --  Nuclear Abominations – NA 013LP