Gravewards "Ruinous Ensoulment" (CD)

Following a well-liked but under-heard demo, Greek death metal band Gravewards are back with their full-length debut. "Ruinous Ensoulment" is a monstrous record - dizzyingly technical riffs alternating with melodic-yet-brutal passages that leave a mark long after the last riff has blown through. With a basically old school sensibility but following no particular one or two influences, Gravewards is death metal at its modern best: calling back to the originators of the genre, yet finding their own particular way forward from there.