Label: Russian Coyote Records
Release date: March 31st, 2025
To be honest, I have a problem with this band. This isn’t about the fact that they’re coming from located in western Russia Kostroma, of course – I’ve never been a supporter of collective responsibility, and I know I don’t have to explain what I mean in this particular case. My problem is whether I should classify or better to say present you this band as a very young one. It’s seemingly as easy as wire, because Necrogenesis was originally created in 1994 and two of four members played in the first period of ensemble’s existence (1994 – 1998) and three of four in the second one (1999 – 2001), so, as you can see, musicians are undoubtedly extremely proficient in their craft. But during these total six years or so they didn’t release even a reh. That’s why, I guess, my dilemma can be somehow justified.
But hell with that! The only important thing here is released March 31st by Russian Coyote Records debut album of Necrogenesis. And let’s be honest – we’re dealing here with a really good piece of music. It probably isn’t anything edge-breaking or so, but still a very solid full-length and every fan of such creativity should have it in the collection as well. And what creativity are we able to listen to here? Well, that’s not too difficult to guess if we look at a cover art, both artwork and a logo, I think. Yes, this is as classic as fuck death metal and anything else. Guys don’t care about any “foreign” and useless influences. They drive twenty-six minutes and fifty-three seconds (what’s about eight tracks) with pure and undisturbed, classically understood, brutality. Guys don’t fuck around even a millisecond. That’s why “Desire for Murder” is dedicated in the first to old-school metalheads, for whom metal, as we use say in Poland, isn’t fucking cream tubes (which I like to eat very much, by the way) and guitar frolics.
I mean, our Russian metal brothers don’t fuck around even a second and torture your souls with brutality in its purest form and its unrestrained eruption, even if this is in the most in middle tempos. And since their eight track debut album lasts less (seven seconds) twenty-seven minutes, it’s more than certain that you won’t end up listening to this full-length! You’ll find here everything that death metal should enclose, all its classics to the core components – short, broken riffs, insane growling, etc. We have here and there some quick guitars or even bass tricks of course, but this is as clear as the sun since such things are also something that just must take place in a subgenre of our beloved music, I mentioned a few lines before. What else can I write about this creativity? Well, I think only by listening to it, I feel like time has gone back about twenty-five, thirty years. And I consider further explanations to be absolutely unnecessary. I guess you know very well what you can expect from this solid work.
So to sum up and make a long story short, grab this released March 31st by Russian Coyote Records CD or digital album as soon as possible, because otherwise you miss something important for death metal. And it doesn’t matter there’s nothing original or even special in “Desire for Murder”. But if we metalheads really seek originality, sophisticated displays and stuff in music? My experience makes me deeply doubt it. Anyway, as I notice it can be quite hard to ship a CD to your home because of the reason (in my opinion it’s throwing the baby together with bathwater) we all know very well. But maybe, I hope, this is only about my bad luck. By the way, and this time these are really my last words (well, don’t be so happy, because it’s only about this review) I hope some label outside Russia will release this to make it much easier for you to enjoy “Desire in Murder”!
