- Label: Agonia Records
- Release date: March 21st, 2025
One more Polish band created in the present millennium, at least under the name you can see above, is coming from Gliwice, Silesia. At the same time all musicians who play in Embrional are experienced ones. I mean, they played and still play in several ensembles and some of them are well-known primarily to more underground oriented Polish fans of extreme music. And what sub-genre of our beloved music Skullripper (who’s the only original member of the band) and company play? Well, this is actually as easy as paying to guess it. Of course, I can be wrong here when it takes a degree of ease, because I have known them since they released their debut demo “Cusp of Evil”. But at the same time I associate such logos and even cover-art unambiguously. And I somehow think I’m not alone here. Anyway, if you don’t know Embrional’s creativity and thought “it must be old-school death metal”, then you were absolutely right!
“Inherited…” is the fourth full-length in the history of the band. You can say this isn’t too impressive a result due to comparing it with the date of the ensemble’s birth – 2003. But when we think about how many changes in the line-up took place during these twenty-two years… Album contains eleven not too long and not too short songs (the shortest, if we don’t count instrumental ones, is about two minutes and fifty-seven seconds and the longest – five minutes and eleven seconds). Guys never came down with their releases below a certain level. And this level is very high when it takes quality. And I’m gonna say this for hell knows which one in a row – I don’t care I heard, and probably will hear, such playing a few thousand times in my life! Everything’s in this creativity just like it should be: broken riffs, several guitar tracks here and there, brutal and at the same time clear for death metal, experienced fan growling, developed drumming.
And to be honest I could end up writing right here. I mean, you actually got to know everything that you should know about this stuff. Well, there still are some things I still must write to not seem totally unprofessional. First of them is telling what kind of old-school death metal we’re dealing with here. Well, every country has its own style and if I need to compare Embrional with some other hordes then it’d be first of all Polish ones (but not the one who you automatically think about when you hear the word Poland). But since I know it’d, even if I used names, say anything for most of you, I tell you this is an American, East Coast, school which is closest to what Embrional plays. I’m talking here first of all about a cult created in 1988 in Yonkers whose debut album was… Well, it’d be too easy and make you’d never dig, if you somehow still don’t know who I mean.
The second important information from the point of view of, let’s call it, a correct written review is the fact that this full-length had its premiere quite a short time ago – 21st March. Label thanks to which we can enjoy it, in every possible format (even if cassette and 12” is limited edition) is Polish Agonia Records. By the way, you can find many really interesting bands there. So, I have no fucking idea what you’re still doing here! Go on the side of a label or band and buy or die. Otherwise, you’re any death metal fan in my opinion!
