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Resurrected
Perpetual
Testimony Records
To Be Released: April 24th, 2026

Rating: 8/10

“The strength of the riff is the soul of ‘Perpetual,’ but it truly moves through its rhythm-centric delivery, the combination of percussion to guitar creates an unbroken stream of urgency, a kinetic state of violence, something indicative of a band that has their shit together.”

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1 – Unholy Intercession
2 – Human Wrath
3 – Forever Damned
4 – Into Mighty Death
5 – Sanity is Lost
6 – Decomposed
7 – Immaculate Deception
8 – Echoes of Creation
9 – Perpetual
10 – Infernal Desire (Malevolent Creation cover)
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Sometimes, it is best to avoid the fluff and the creative embellishments of modern extreme music. Speaking in a language of violence – short, confrontational bursts of sonic information – Resurrected craft a narrative of auditorial butchery on their eighth and newest full-length, Perpetual, to be released in April 2026 through Testimony Records. Nearly a decade of silence shattered through 10 tracks, clocking in at 34 minutes, packed and seeping with fused shades of modernized death metal and high-speed grind. The quartet, led by founding member Thomas Granzow, execute an exhaustive campaign into the realm of blasting fury and maelstrom riffing.

Air raid sirens and the telltale dive of a strike bombers ring out before a discordant primary riff enters over machine-gun double bass on the intro track, ‘Unholy Intercession,’ a brief spastic intro declaration that shows off the tonal palette and production qualities, setting up a buildup of tension as it feeds into ‘Human Wrath,’ completing an intense one-two punch, shifting in power, centering itself, and slamming forward like a primitive battering ram. The churning riff crafting is highlighted in crunchy mid-range tones and a deep saturated low end, with acute bite to blistering chord stabs and a tornadic presence in its grinding tremolo. Dennis Thiele’s drum performance is monstrous, a constant explosion of strikes, peppering each beat and measure with incessant movement, a true display in stamina and presence.

The strength of the riff is the soul of Perpetual, but it truly moves through its rhythm-centric delivery, the combination of percussion to guitar creates an unbroken stream of urgency, a kinetic state of violence, something indicative of a band that has their shit together.

‘Into Mighty Death’ is one of those cuts that would cause a live audience to beat the fuck out of each other. There’s really no easier way to explain it. The old-school riffs structures – whip strikes of melodicism and brutality – beat listlessly against the listener with steamrolling percussion effortlessly blending in with it. Severe Torture, old-school Dying Fetus, Suffocation, the blend of seamless percussive integration with the ever-churning guitar grinding that breaks and snaps in and out of discord and melody at inhumane speed, Resurrected do it just as well.

Even when the band slows down, briefly, such as the intro phrase of ‘Sanity is Lost,’ where it belts out steady palm-muted eighth notes, the marching standard of pure guitar tone, a sequence of sound that appeals to the lizard brain of every death metal fanatic, Resurrected manage to keep the soundspace wildly saturated. The attack of the guitar tone, the bite of the staccato strikes and the beautiful texture to the single-note tremolo is formidable at every tempo and each sequence of delivery.

‘Decomposed’ and ‘Echoes of Creation’ offer otherworldly bursts of maniacal energy deep into the record, really driving the point home, that Perpetual is a non-stop onslaught of a release. Where many would try to break up bouts of similar tempos and interject some concept of release to contrast the near-constant state of tension, Resurrected denounce it, pushing forward in constantly active, constantly confrontational manners, track by track.

‘Infernal Desire,’ a cover of mid-1990s Malevolent Creation, terminates Perpetual, laden with samples, ripe with massive chugs and screaming discordant chord voicings, shutting down 34 minutes of non-stop murder.

The production, obviously, favors the guitar attack and drum carnage, with a presence that sounds more in the middle range, with somewhat flattened dynamics, but ultimately loud, full of body, and possessing a beautiful old-school guitar tone. A cleaner version of early Nile recordings, the first Blood Incantation EP, and many of the mid-to-late 1990s American death metal releases would be comparable in terms of production in totality. Each individual track is razor sharp, concise, and clean in delivery, exemplifying the breakneck speeds in which they are delivered.

The damage inflicted by Resurrected is catastrophic, a blistering torrent of snare massacre and axe grinding of the highest order. Old-school death metal fans, grind fans, and those wanting speed and aggression with no bullshit attached to it, absolutely give Perpetual some attention.

Label: Testimony Records
Band: Resurrected

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