As my friend Carlos would say: “How beautiful is music, pibe.” And it’s great when a Metal band can make your head bob from the very first riff. And that’s what happens here with surgical precision: PLAGUE VESSEL, a new band that comes to nourish the powerful Finnish Death Metal scene. And it couldn’t be different: powerful, deep, cavernous, dark, as hell. The vocals, by Matias Sakko, are precise, effective and perfectly conceived for a band and an album like this, with these characteristics, I mean. Like tailor-made. One of the elements I liked the most about this debut EP called “Human Waste Conglomerate”, released this year by Morbid Chapel Records, is that the songs are very catchy, they stick to you like slugs on your face. There’s no song that won’t make your head move back and forth to the rhythm. I like that! It’s not a flat, linear, predictable, or a symmetrically boring band by any means. They know the secret of rhythm perfectly. They know how to control that involuntary movement of the feet. The guitars are the dominant here. The ones that define what happens inside the songs. And of course, the influences (in a new band like this) will always be floating on the surface, of course. I can hear certain echoes of what bands like CONVULSE, DEMILICH, KRYPTS, DESECRESY (and maybe others outside the Finnish scene) have done, but I want to keep it at home. In Helsinki. This EP, with only four tracks and less than 25 minutes long, is everything one needs from that spectrum of Death Metal in which the music describes a concept behind very well. Right from the first track, ‘Human Waste Conglomerate’, PLAGUE VESSEL is laying the groundwork for what it is and what it came to do. Then, ‘Flayed Procession’, my favorite track on the EP, takes you to a procession where you will be mercilessly flayed. From there, we jump to ‘Putrefaction Of Flesh Devoured By The Void’, a dense, deep, absorbing track. A body that is absorbed by the void after being flayed. Continuing the previous track. Musically, gravitating between slow and mid-tempos amidst wails full of darkness. Finally we have the fourth and last track of the EP, ‘Entropy Of Stellar Purulence’, a track full of that, of the most notorious purulence. For me, it’s the most dynamic track on the album and a track that wants to take you back to that starting point to repeat the cycle. One of the albums that I have liked the most so far this year. More information here: www.instagram.com/plaguevesseldeath, www.facebook.com/morbidchapelrecords