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Asphyx - Deathhammer



8.1 | 271 votes |
Release date: 27 February 2012
Style: Death metal

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01. Into The Timewastes
02. Deathhammer
03. Minefield
04. Of Days When Blades Turned Blunt
05. Der Landser
06. Reign Of The Brute
07. The Flood
08. We Doom You To Death
09. Vespa Crabro
10. As The Magma Mammoth Rises
11. Death The Brutal Way [bonus] [7' Version 2008]
12. Os Abysmi Vel Daath [Celtic Frost cover] [bonus] [7' Version 2008]

Additional info
Drums and vocals recorded at Harrow Studio. Guitars and bass recorded at The Mörser Studio.
Production by Harry Wijering, Paul Baayens and Asphyx.
Mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound Studio.

Cover art, booklet illustrations and handwriting by Axel Hermann. Layout by Carsten Dreschner for Media Logistics GmbH.

Staff review by
Daniell
Rating:
9.0
If you want to listen to an orchestra of drills, jackhammers and chainsaws with a grunting pig in the foreground, this is not an album for you. If you want a sterile surgery room sound that's soulless, completely flat and devoid of any feeling, colour or emotion, this is not an album for you. In other words, if you're a fan of "brutal" (notice the parentheses) death metal, Asphyx might not be the best thing to spend your allowance money on. (I put "brutal" in inverted commas because that ridiculous subgenre of metal is everything but brutal. Believe me, after a whole summer day spent in army boots my stinking socks are much more brutal and violent.)

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published 24.03.2012 | Comments (53)

26.02.2012
Screw all your tech death bullshit fretboard wankers who forgot what death metal is and only churn out chaotic assemblies of soulless hogwash mistakenly called music. Asphyx is the shit, ladies and gentlemen. Let Deathhammer pulverize you.

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04.03.2011 - 06:32
3rdWorldFuckface
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good thing for Death metal
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16.03.2011 - 00:39
Rating: 9
AXA

AMAZING BAND \../
I WAIT THIS ALBUM IN FUCKING HOT HAIL ....\../
PLEAS DO IT LIKE ..Death... The Brutal Way ...
AMAZING ALBUM
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09.08.2011 - 16:19
Rating: 9
arj

Gimme nauw
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16.12.2011 - 11:23
JÄY
Metal slave
Written by AXA on 16.03.2011 at 00:39

AMAZING BAND \../
I WAIT THIS ALBUM IN FUCKING HOT HAIL ....\../
PLEAS DO IT LIKE ..Death... The Brutal Way ...
AMAZING ALBUM

Well, the new song they've released sounds like the last album, anyway.
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07.02.2012 - 01:05
Rating: 8
@gent_-_orange

Stoked for this. Their is no doubts of what it's going to sound like, and I am confident it will be great.
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08.02.2012 - 23:08
Rating: 8
.Nick

Really looking forward to this release.
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24.02.2012 - 04:28
Misfit74

Streaming in full here: http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/streaming-asphyx-deathhammer/
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24.02.2012 - 20:59
Rulatore

What wall of sound, honestly it kind fucked up the album
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26.02.2012 - 07:27
Rating: 9
strade

This is one of the greatest death metal albums I've ever heard. Holy. Fucking. Shit. Sorry for the obscenities, ladies and gentlemen, but I have no other words. I mean, seriously, FUCK.
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27.02.2012 - 00:15
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Mastercommander
Ima try it out.
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Coldgrits
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27.02.2012 - 17:20
!J.O.O.E.!
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Solid stuff.
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28.02.2012 - 08:20
Misfit74

This album crushes, grooves, and dooms. Nothing not to like. I will say that a few songs could just as easily appear on a Hail Of Bullets album. That's cool and all, but the crossover is uncanny. I do realize that the guitarist is in both bands and obviously he has a large hand in the riff-making. Certainly, he writes some of my favorite riffs between both bands. I think if you love Hail Of Bullets you have to love this album and vice versa, therefore I couldn't be happier. Also, Van Drunen just does a magnificent job on this album, fortifying his status as the best Death Metal vocalist of all-time.
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29.02.2012 - 15:12
Rating: 8
R'Vannith
ghedengi
Like a brick to the face
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29.02.2012 - 15:13
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
I wonder how many new songs they will play coming Friday ate Neurotic Deathfest and how many new ones at their cd presentation gig on the 9th
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Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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29.02.2012 - 16:00
Rating: 9
Daniell
_爱情_
As I said in my staff pick, this is what death metal is supposed to be. Or maybe I'm an old man that only likes old school Be that as it may, old bands just do it better!
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29.02.2012 - 16:04
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by Daniell on 29.02.2012 at 16:00

As I said in my staff pick, this is what death metal is supposed to be. Or maybe I'm an old man that only likes old school Be that as it may, old bands just do it better!


Does not apply to Morbid Angel, Pestilence and Vader even though Vader's last is better than MA's it is nowhere near the qulaity of their older works
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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29.02.2012 - 16:18
Rating: 9
Daniell
_爱情_
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 29.02.2012 at 16:04

Written by Daniell on 29.02.2012 at 16:00

As I said in my staff pick, this is what death metal is supposed to be. Or maybe I'm an old man that only likes old school Be that as it may, old bands just do it better!


Does not apply to Morbid Angel, Pestilence and Vader even though Vader's last is better than MA's it is nowhere near the qulaity of their older works


I completely agree about Morbid Angel, partially agree about Pestilence, and disagree about Vader, because they never went below a certain level of quality, even if their latest isn't as great as De Profundis or Black to the Blind.

Maybe I should rephrase my statement to "old bands (usually) do it better"
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29.02.2012 - 21:08
Rating: 8
.Nick

OSDM the way it should be.
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01.03.2012 - 20:40
Rating: 8
Pelagial

Great album
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01.03.2012 - 21:11
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Mastercommander
This is really good. now, KNEEL! you dogs.
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Coldgrits
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01.03.2012 - 21:48
Rating: 8
Koen Smits

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 29.02.2012 at 16:04

Written by Daniell on 29.02.2012 at 16:00

As I said in my staff pick, this is what death metal is supposed to be. Or maybe I'm an old man that only likes old school Be that as it may, old bands just do it better!


Does not apply to Morbid Angel, Pestilence and Vader even though Vader's last is better than MA's it is nowhere near the qulaity of their older works


and doesn't apply to Obituary, Deicide, Autopsy or Vomitory...
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Written by Bad English on 05.04.2014 at 15:05

but spoil thius film is like spoil porn and say porn ends whit cum shot ...
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01.03.2012 - 23:46
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
^ Meh, I enjoy the latest Autopsy.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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02.03.2012 - 02:32
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by X-Ray Rod on 01.03.2012 at 23:46

^ Meh, I enjoy the latest Autopsy.


Way tooooooo long, if it had beeen 45 minutes it would have been great
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Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
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02.03.2012 - 07:21
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 02.03.2012 at 02:32

Written by X-Ray Rod on 01.03.2012 at 23:46

^ Meh, I enjoy the latest Autopsy.


Way tooooooo long, if it had beeen 45 minutes it would have been great


That doesn't really take the goodness. I can just listen to one half first and then the other one later. The quality is still there.
Those guys should have made it 40-45 minutes and the rest of the album could have been saved for another album or an EP. But yeah, it doesn't really bother me.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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02.03.2012 - 16:43
Rating: 8
Koen Smits

Written by X-Ray Rod on 01.03.2012 at 23:46

^ Meh, I enjoy the latest Autopsy.


Ok, out of these 4 Autopsy comes out best.
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RIP: Frank Vandenbroucke (6 nov 1974 - 12 oct 2009)

Written by Bad English on 05.04.2014 at 15:05

but spoil thius film is like spoil porn and say porn ends whit cum shot ...
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04.03.2012 - 22:44
TrollandDie

Nothing wrong with modern death metal (one of the most consistent scenes out there today) but it's nice to see groups sticking to old-school routes and doing it right.
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Hello, my name is Mr......Snrub and I think it would be a capital idea to invest the money back in the nuclear plant.
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11.03.2012 - 18:44
Rating: 8
Iron Nostarion
Maiden Whore
They do the old school shit well and catchy and doom elements are good, but besides it being a very good release, I think it's slightly overrated as well.

I prefer Aborted's latest release above this one despite me being more of an old-school guy in death metal taste.
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To their tombs the people are immured,
There is their gold, treasure and wealth,
The only condition is to ignore them,
Those who feed on corruption and weave death
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12.03.2012 - 02:42
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Decades ago, a time now long gone
death metal had its pure form
so easy then amongst global friends
a bold scene never to conform
changes set in, pollution begins
despicable developments
the duty to return and make all traitors burn
on to your knees and repent

deathhammer

vocals so poor, like frogs in a moor
guitars like clouds of fruit flies
where's the bass sound, drums hat don't pound
hear how our iron church cries
they don't give a fuck, just collecting bucks
acting like statues on stage
our final call to all those false
we summon thou bastards to rage

deathhammer

writing the pages, lasting for ages
restore purity that once was
deathhammer bloodstained, death will die again
this is our doctrine and cause
chapters demanding, episodes ending
deliverin the death metal bill
the years of the leech, finished as we preach
if ou won't face death wel will

deathhammer
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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12.03.2012 - 04:57
Rating: 7
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
TIL death metal musicians are as butthurt about death metal evolving as every old man who grew up listening to Morbid Angel and Autopsy.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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12.03.2012 - 12:44
Rating: 8
InnerSelf
proofread free
Hahaha Marcel wtf ! I take it from this that you don't appreciate Ulcerate, Metochondrian, .... etc ?
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to be stared at from across the abyss
is not bold enough
to stare into it himself.
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