ASPHYX - On The Wings Of Inferno LP (Silver Vinyl)

There's no need to single out a lot of individual tracks here, as 1. there aren't that many, and 2. they are all of very high caliber. I will say though that the opener "Summoning The Storm" reveals all the album's strengths right up front. It's fast at times - not blasting fast, but old school freight-train fast - with a heavy, doomy middle section that bludgeons you with one of the album's most memorable riffs and thunderous drums. Here and throughout the album, the percussion is loud and bass-heavy, the guitar is grinding and nasty, and Gubbels growls dementedly over the top of it all in a cavernous (but not overdone) reverb. It's a decidedly 1990-ish sound, and it really works.