Maybe it's just me, but I'm having a hard time finding anything about Critical Obsession that warrants me, to tell you, the reader, that you need to go out and get this CD. You see, this band from Portugal that calls themselves Gates of Hell, don't really live up to their otherwise clever name, as they play a sort of thrashy, US styled brand of deathcore, which we all know is a metal sub-genre that has been done to death in recent years and not producing much of note of late. Despite some groove laden riffs in spots and some brief catchy melodies here and there, much of Critical Obsession is filled with tired metalcore bellow-meets-death metal growls we've heard a million times before, and songs that follow that familiar chugga-chugga-boom-boom-breakdown-crash-boom formula that's, well, all too familiar. Even on the brutality scale they fall a little flat too, which kind of makes you wonder, 'what's the point?'.
Not terrible, but also not very compelling, interesting, or memorable either. Next.
Track Listing
1. Releasing The Disease 01:44
2. Constructive Misery 04:05
3. Phenomenal Syndrome 04:38
4. Psycothic Break 00:44
5. Critical Obsession 04:51
6. Abusive Resolution 04:06
7. Into My Destruction 05:17
8. Embracing the Reality 03:36
9. Face Your Fears 04:15
10. Evolution of the Weak 04:45
11. Chronical Revolt 05:36
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