Eternal Death / Crown of Thorns

As far as Swedish death metal goes, Crown of Thorns is probably the most brutal band out there. With ten songs of energy-packed conviction, _Eternal Death_ contains plenty of your typically sweet melodies, yet also pummels the ears with the kind of blast beats and all-out musical abrasiveness you don't usually find from a Gothenburg-based outfit such as CoT. Genre pigeonholing aside, Crown of Thorns have found a medium between the more brutal ...

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