AXIS POWERS Pure Slaughter CD (2005)

Sweden keeps producing death metal like it's a natural resource, and Axis Powers were digging in a particularly grim seam of it when Pure Slaughter dropped in 2005.

This isn't the Gothenburg melodic strain or the polished Sunlight Studios sound everyone references in documentaries. Axis Powers sit closer to the grinding, no-frills end of Swedish death metal, where the point is impact rather than atmosphere. Pure Slaughter does what it says. Short, sharp, direct. The kind of record that fits between your Repulsion and your Vomitory without breaking a sweat. At this price it's an easy grab for anyone filling out their Scandinavian death metal shelf.

CD, 2005. Swedish death metal.

Fans of: Vomitory, Dismember, Grave, Entombed, Repulsion.