Band:	Hate Eternal
Album:	Fury & Flames
Style:	Brutal death metal
Release date:	February 19, 2008
Guest review by:	Visioneerie

01. Hell Envenom
02. Whom Gods May Destroy
03. Para Bellum
04. Bringer Of Storms
05. The Funerary March
06. Thus Salvation
07. Proclamation Of The Damned
08. Fury Within
09. Tombeau (Le Tombeau De La Fureur Et Des Flames)
10. Coronach

Sound comes as an important factor while recording an album and it usually helps create the overall feel. Hate Eternal is a band that stands on its own and their new album, might I say, is as much about the production and the sound as it is about the music. Neither fail to deliver. A lot of this credit goes to Erik Rutan for his producing skills and for assembling an all star line-up for Fury & Flames. There's Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse, Blotted Science) on the bass, guitarist Shaune Kelley (Dim Mak, Ripping Corpse) and Jade Simonetto on drums who can easily steal the throne from Inferno or maybe even Flo Mounier. Need I say more?

What Fury & Flames delivers is ferocious riffs, demonic vocals and drumming that is all over the place, executed with mind blowing speed which accounts for an overall chaotic feeling, but chaos has its beauty if thought out well and here is a perfect example. Some people may remove their headphones after the first listen of this album and hide the case in their closet. What Fury & Flames takes is patience because you will not be able to discern everything that's going on after one simple listen. This is extreme death metal with a wall of sound that deserves an attentive listen because there are many great things in all of the songs. The album holds a consistent pace the whole way through, it maintains the same aggressive and heavy sound. What's even better is that the songs are very discernable from each other and they all have their high points, not one lacks in originality. The musicianship is very tight all around. There are a lot of out of the norm chord structures that are really interesting and the solos deserve high praise as well. The speed is also quite impressive, you can surely count on your fingers the number of bands that are able play as fast as these guys.

Rutan once again, proves his genius in the production of this monsterpiece creating a unique mix of the instruments. This might as well be the most extreme album of the year, so if you're looking for something to blow you away, literally, Fury & Flames should be your number one pick. The title describes the sound, furious and full of hellish blasting like passages.

"To say Fury & Flames is kinda heavy is like saying Mount Everest is kinda high." - Metal Maniacs