UNLEASHED - Where No Life Dwells LP (Gold Vinyl)

Holy shit! This album is simply a gem of Swedish death metal. Hardly any albums by any metal artist can touch the intensity and greatness of this old school death metal release. This is Unleashed doing some of their best work. It's heavy, fast, and intense, with just enough melody to hold together the depths of the evil, evil, evil overall sound.

The album starts with a short, minute long acoustic folk intro, which immediately becomes a heavy mash of guitars, drums, and tortured death screams with "Dead Forever". Johnny Hedlund's vocals are evil gravel growls which manage still to be intelligible, sometimes a lost art form in death metal. They are the top layer of a wall of heavy, crunchy guitar sounds, with ridiculously good riffing. The riffs on this album are spectacular and probably one of my favorite things about this album and Unleashed in general. Every song has at least two major riff hooks that you will either hum or play on your guitar constantly out of habit and their cool sound.