Century Media Records has been flying the flag in carrying the legacy of pure death metal. From classic death metal acts such as Napalm Death and Aborted, to Melodic Death Metal classics such as At the Gates and Dark Tranquility to new bands carrying the brutality such as Lorna Shore, Red Death, Nasty and Skeletal Remains. 

Skeletal Remains takes everything classic about death metal and brings a whole new school charm to it. In their new album The Entombment of Chaos, they bring a whole new lease of life to a genre we all know and love. This album is packed full of riffs, blast beats, and growls that serve as the ultimate soundtrack to the darkest depths of music. The Entombment of Chaos is the perfect title as this album serves as a tomb of pure relentlessness that will leave you limping away and coming back for more. 

The intro track Cosmic Chasm serves as the ultimate buildup providing a dark fantasy oriented sound that sets a moody atmosphere that braces you for the inevitable impact that is ahead. Illusive Divinity kicks right in with incredible and intense downturned riffs with an intense rhythm to support it. It holds nothing back and delivers raw energy and power. The growls remain consistent but instill more and more as it moves along. The solo demonstrates great technical excellence. This was the perfect track to demonstrate just how brutal this album is going to get. The momentum is carried over in Congregation of Flesh which has All out brutality is demonstrated once again. It has a nice dramatic pause after 15 seconds to further enhance the suspenseful elements and has almost a hardcore rhythmic element behind it. Sustaining notes in the solo enhances the atmosphere even more. The speed is upped even further with Synthetic Impulse. The drums are cut throat and the riffs are crunchy and insane, all while having a great flow with every element working so well cohesively.Tombs of Chaos incorporates riffs that have a tad more melody in it with intense rhythm to back it up. The incredible drumming helps dictate the direction of everything else. When the first growl comes in, it slows down a little bit in tempo while the double bass maintains the intensity. Its able to reinforce suspense and recapture the imaginations by being a tad more experimental in its overall structure. The soloing is the guide to lead you out as everything fades. Enshrined in Agony Serves as a great interlude to give you a chance to catch your breath and demonstrate more imagery, mystery and experimentation. Dissectasy brings back the full blown intensity once again. Riffs and rhythm morph together to create one hell of a dark sound as it moves very well and has the ability to make every passing second more and more elevating. Tortuous ways to Obliteration is more of a thrashy way of leading you in before kicking in again with its brutality and intensity. You feel it speeding up more and more as it moves along then the sludgy sustained notes of the guitar pulls you in before going all out shredding. Another awesome way of further demonstrating technical excellence.of a thrashy way of leading you in before kicking in again with its brutality and intensity. You feel it speeding up more and more as it moves along then the sludgy sustained notes of the guitar pulls you in before going all out shredding. Awesome way of further demonstrating technical excellence. Eternal Hatred Calmly fades in. You hear the riffs and double bass slowly emerge from the shadows which makes going into this intense track much more brutal and much more unsettling. Though it takes a slower approach again it still doesn’t hold back in its pure relentless madness.Unfurling the Casket is slower and more doomy start once again. It has a bit of an epic tone to lead you in that is very powerful then continues its intensity once it all kicks in all while there is tons more melody is demonstrated in the guitar tones, making it more of a Gothenburg melodic death metal style in its soling. Ending with Stench of Paradise Burning, It is  very reminiscent of Reign in Blood by Slayer, leading you in with the intense hard hitting drums and soloing tradeoff. Then all hell is unleashed. Growls are way more defined and the soloing is able to also capture more power and technical excellence. It is the perfect way to let every element stand out to end it off.

It can’t be said enough, but Death Metal is in great hands. With bands such as Gatecreeper, Necrot, Blood Incantation and Skeletal Remains carrying the flag, this genre of death will always be granted new life. Skeletal Remains takes everything we know about this genre and reinforces it all while adding a great new school underground charm to it. The Entombment of Chaos will easily go down with classic death metal albums such as Tomb of the Mutilated, Once Upon a Cross and others. While this record says everything it needs to say, we know that this is just scratching the surface of an intense era of brutality that awaits.