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Jun 26, 2014The pounding "Portraits," gloomy "Severed Lives," and wonderfully odd "Deathtripper" betoken a metal band reaching new peaks in agile brutality.
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Kerrang!Jun 24, 2014While they're no Tool, there's also a little something for the more cerebral of listeners. [7 Jun 2014, p.53]
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Jun 11, 2014You can feel their newfound focus and commitment here, racing through every new crest Hernandez hits or each burly refrain Hill bellows.
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Jul 21, 2014Savage approximates an extreme metal endgame, pushing the music into increasingly intricate, brutal, and downright boring forms.
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Jun 11, 2014At 10 tracks, Savage Gold is lean enough not to wander, diverse enough not bore, and certainly heavy enough to smash skulls and pillage minds.
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Jun 11, 2014Wherever Tombs travel, they create evocative metallic nightmares most of their contemporaries only dream of crafting.
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Jun 11, 2014Savage Gold is of course far more than the sum of its parts, but those parts--Killing Joke, Deathspell Omega, later Death--make for an excellent starting point for the band's considerable combined talents to spring from.