Evisarize - Bound in Flesh

Evisarize – Bound in Flesh
Release Date: 26th August 2026
Label: Self Released
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Genre: Death Metal, Thrash.
FFO: Testament, Demolition Hammer, Slayer, Kreator, Dying Fetus, Revocation.
Review By: Mark Young

How do they describe themselves? Ah, that’s right – Heavy, maniacally fast death thrash. It’s pretty succinct as a description and it’s one that is nailed almost straight away with Ritual Homicide deciding that everything else you have heard this year is just too slow. I don’t want to hear anyone say ‘ah, it was faster in my day etc etc’ because this is fast. I’m concerned for how close they could play this live without injury. In all honesty, if you look to what is required from extreme metal, and I mean it from the perspective of what got you into this in the first place – speed, aggression, then this is almost a perfect distillation of that. It also means that the following nine tracks have to be as good.

Bound in Flesh is as quick, but not in that straightforward brutal way. Instead, this one is built upon the other main features of metal – suitably mental lead breaks that stretch, tempos that shift into that breakneck pace; Like Ritual Homicide, it’s built to be played live, that much is certain. Blunt Force Torture follows, using that template formed for Bound in Flesh, without sounding like a carbon copy of it. So far we have three very strong tracks from them, but it’s pointing me towards a possible quandary. Do they continue to burn like they are doing, or do they throw in a slow, melodic piece that builds into an explosive climax?

The opening chords of Architects of Hell suggests the latter, but something is not quite right with it. They sound slanted and then keep the faith by kicking it over into high gear. Honestly, I’m glad that they have decided to throw caution to the wind and just blast through, because it shows that at the base of things, they are true fans of the music. At the half-way point, there is no sign of slowing down and it’s like they are doubling down on what it means to them to be able to release music that means something to them. How many bands have you followed where they drop an almighty clanger by slowing down or doing a ballad? There is no danger (so far) of this happening here and it’s possible you might describe it as one-dimensional but balls to that. This is extreme metal for fans of extreme metal, especially when you get to Chaos of a World Reborn. This one flies to a point until wisely they pull that insane tempo back to something more manageable. Like Bound in Flesh, there is room for a quality lead, before they get back into the speed business.

This is the sort of album that doesn’t need an in-depth review, at least in my mind. I keep going back to the feeling that at its heart is the fact that they are fans who have no intention of letting any fan of this music down. Even the inclusion of an instrumental doesn’t really get in the way of the momentum that is built as it changes into the last song for the evening, Blood of the Sun. I couldn’t pull one track out from this as a high-point given that each one (not you Tsungunai) are as good as the one before. I’ve mentioned that the constant speed of attack might not be for everyone, but for those who do, this is a corker of a release.