DEATH FROM ABOVE is a Death Metal band from France that began its career in 2021 with a single called ‘Power Of Demons’, later featured on their first full-length “Altered Dimension”, also from 2021. In that release, the band appeared showing a “traditional” Death Metal very much in the vein of bands like SINISTER, IMMOLATION or DEICIDE, with certain elements of what people call brutal Death Metal, a style I’m not a big fan of, but which is approached on the album in a very intelligent way and even in accordance with the sound and “image” that (I assume) the band wanted to project. In any case, “Altered Dimension” was the best debut the band could have created because the songs have the sound, the style, and “the vibe” of that Death Metal many of us grew up with. So, DEATH FROM ABOVE will not sound strange to us at all. Four years later, in December of last year, the band presented their second full-length which, from the start, reproduces a different sound, perhaps more “modern”. It is something that is easily identified just by listening to three seconds of the new album. This one, “Reckoning Of The Damned”, still feels to me like that mix of influences from the bands I mentioned above but with a more “modern” air. I insist on the word “modern” without being quite sure it is the right word, but it is the only one that comes to mind to make it understood that here, they sound different from how they sound on “Altered Dimension”. But, don’t get me wrong, the band sounds like old school Death Metal and does not change its essence. ‘Apex Predators’ is the first track on the album and exemplifies the context of the entire album very well. The intention. The direction in which the band wants to guide us. We have the same aggressiveness, the same Death Metal and the same style. And if you don’t believe me, listen to songs like ‘God Of Terror’, ‘Prélude To Retrobution’ or ‘Echoes Of Sacrifice’, true annihilators. Songs that have no mercy. Although the sonic jump from one album to the other is slightly different (because I prefer the sound of “Altered Dimension” if I’m honest), “Reckoning Of The Damned” seems to me to be an even more mature album. I find a more defined style by the band and a strong coherence in terms of structure, lyrics, and identity. The band does not disagree with itself. It does not “forget its past” and that, for someone like me, is decisive because for me it says that DEATH FROM ABOVE is a band I can believe in. One I can attend with confidence. And how about the musical display? Well, simple, I will describe it with a very Metal word: “Brutal”. As you progress through the album, you begin to understand this “Reckoning Of The Damned”, every riff, every arpeggio, every drum beat, every regurgitation of the owner of the vocal part (Manu Iriarté). You can tell they are sensible musicians who know what they want. The album (since the band emerged in 2011) is once again rolling through the world in digital and CD formats, thanks to the label Great Dane Records, which has been the band’s home since day one. In general terms, I have nothing more to highlight under the most demanding standards of a music lover like me, the qualities of DEATH FROM ABOVE, their coherence (a word I always use) and the connection of these Frenchmen with their clear intention when it comes to making music and presenting it to the world. A band that must be listened to with some good beers by your side. More information here: www.facebook.com/deathfromabovedeathmetal, www.facebook.com/greatdanerecords