Beats and yelling: Desecresy

The Secret of DeathOut 21st May on Xtreem Music Since the departure of Jarno Nurmi in 2016, Tommi Grönqvist has steered the good ship Desecresy in painfully incremental steps from one album to the next, a process that feels like it’s finally bloomed on their latest album ‘The Secret of Death’. Namely a synthesis of Bolt Thrower from ‘War Master’ onwards with the gothic sheen of chasmic death/doom, a story told with characteristically drab Finnish wit, evincing all the eerie atmosphere we’ve come to expect of death metal from this region. Era one of Desecresy, essentially covering the first three albums, continues to define the overarching aesthetic of this artist on this, their ninth album. But the tectonic plates of genre have gradually shifted under its feet, as track lengths have swelled and a metallic fluidity has slowly replaced the ordered sequenced pulses of industrial. The production is perhaps the meatiest we’ve seen from Desecresy to date. The guitar tone is now the fully…