Pure cataclysmic sounding devastation is what Sahmaataha conjures up from the unholy depths with the release of their debut demo, “Harvesting Worlds.” These abhorrent extreme metal musicians do not hold anything back as they unleash an unbelievably barbaric extreme metal beatdown.
On each of the three tracks listeners will notice instantly that this band does not wish to reinvent the extreme music world, yet they also do not set out to write regurgitated and forgettable sounding riffs. The band’s sound is a morbidly sinister blend of bone crushing old school death metal, haunting black metal and merciless sounding thrash metal. In the end, these musicians are able to combine all their extreme metal skills in order to create one gruesome sounding assault.
The overall sound and production creates a very raw and abrasive environment, which I felt strengthened this band’s unforgiving creative musical vision. Take for example the opening track, “Absolute Enslavement,” where instead of giving listeners a chance to be prepared for the upcoming destruction, the band decides to instantly open up the apocalyptic gates by hammering out a fearsome sounding riff. Also, the drumming provided a monumental rush of hellish aggression to push the music into an even more terrifying direction. Adding to the overwhelming malevolent aural carnage, the band’s vocalist unleashes some profound demonic like growls to compliment the pulverizing riffs.
Whereas I felt the band did a great job balancing a variety of extreme metals elements on the first track, I noticed that on the second track, “That Which Once Was,” you could definitely hear more old school death metal influences during the song. Actually, I thought that during this song the band did a tremendous job capturing certain aspects of 90’s death metal, especially in terms of how they went about recording the instruments. I find that too many modern death metal bands sound down right atrocious due to the fact that the recording of the instruments ends up sounding completely cheap and lacks that vicious old school edge. The third track, “Harvesting Worlds,” is another nightmarish offering upon the extreme metal altar by throwing down more sickening riffs. During this track I felt that the guitar playing started to really catch my attention, and the lead parts were perfectly woven into the arrangements.
For only three tracks, “Harvesting Worlds,” is a very solid sounding demo release and Sahmaataha demonstrated that they are a band not trying to throw out generic sounding recordings. On future releases I definitely want to hear this band go furthering with their dynamic blend of extreme metal, while maintaining that insidious mindset which allows them to write such decimating pieces of music. I highly recommend people check out Sahmaataha and keep an eye out for what they having coming out in the future, because if this is just their demo, then I sure as hell cannot wait to hear what they will summon forth on their debut full-length.
Check out the full demo below:
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