Album Review: Scorching Tomb – Ossuary
Band: Scorching Tomb
Title: Ossuary
Label: Time to Kill Records
Release date: October 24th, 2025
Country: Canada
Format reviewed: High-Quality Digital Recording
Album Review: Scorching Tomb – Ossuary via Time to Kill Records by Sílvia
The Death Metal scene has been assaulted by Scorching Tomb debut album, “Ossuary”, and believe me, they’re taking no prisoners in their mission! Hailing from Canada, this is a very impressive new release.
The sound of this album is, to say it plain: putrid, relentless, ferocious… These guys deliver filthy OSDM with no remorse. And there are parts quite technical too. Riffs are heavy, low tuned guitars and bass provide a groovy sound that permeates your brain and infects every cell on it, inviting the listener to constantly mosh. Hey if you can listen to this album standing still, are you even human? I bet you’ll be shaking your body frantically all the time.
And, what to say about drums: they are mostly pummeling with high intensity, crushing your bones, you can feel the energy waves in every beat, in the furious double bass pedal attack… It delivers scorching fire. And also, there’s room for some slower parts, and the way the different tempos alternate is precise, like these guys were experts in the metal scene from decades ago.
Vocals are like a vomit cascade, gnarly, hideous, great for this style of Death Metal. There are two guest vocalists in this album: Devin Swank (Sanguisugabogg) and Alex Cloutier (Primal Horde), so… you can expect more horrific grunts.
Clocking at less than half an hour, you may think it’s short but the intensity of the tracks make it necessary, or you’d die of pure suffocation under tons of sonic putrefaction. For me, it has a perfect length. In case you want more, you can play it again.
The sick colourful artwork was done by the Australian tattoo artist Oscar Bonin, and in my opinion it depicts perfectly what you’ll find out when you press the “play” button or when you put the needle on the vinyl. Horror, impaled skulls, and a floating aurora of pure brutality, while there’s blood dripping from everywhere. The unreadable logo also has its part in the whole visual impact. Woah.
This brutality is for fans of disgusting Death Metal. In the good sense, of course. 9/10
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