Description
Unheralded death metal heroes from Portugal, Undersave, have been trying to carve their own path and every half a decade or so we get an album that is a quantum leap from the previous one. And while their previous album is already considered as a significant one, their new album is a huge step ahead while retaining the core sound.
"Merged in Abstract Perdition" is a masterful album that is at once dark, dissonant, and atmospheric. Having developed such good songwriting skills, they don't need to rely too much on abstractness or dissonance to get attention; while they navigate similar labyrinthine paths, they do so in an unhurried manner, allowing the riffs to create their own hypnotic crescendo. It is easy to get lost in their world swirling with mesmerizing, dissonant-edged riffs and that is probably the best way to listen to their music - to allow yourself to get sucked into it all, just because there is so much to absorb. Even then, it will require multiple experiences for the concepts to be fully grasped. Every song is a monolith, outwardly similar but each offers its own twisted interpretation without losing consistency.
Undersave may have just come up with a masterpiece, rivalling not only their own albums but also the other ones in the style.
For fans of Immolation, Ulcerate, Replicant, Maere, Gorguts, Dysgnostic, Saevus Finis