Obliteration are from Norway. However, they don’t play black, but classic old-school death metal played with heart and soul in the vein of Obituary, Deicide и Cannibal Corpse. The band is discovered by Darkthrone’s Nocturno Culto who, impressed by the youngsters, helps them by giving a friendly shoulder here and there and even signs them to his record label. “Perpetual Decay” is a debut album notable with the technique, the speed and the aggressive playing of the guys, having in mind that most of them are under the age of 20. Brutal and fast riffs, solos a-la Kerry King’s filing, speeding drums and speakers-pounding bass support the growls of Sindre Solem (who, along the guitarist Arild Torp, plays in the thrash pack Nekromantheon, too). The CD fits great in a party where you can drink all night and listen to old death metal records - it could be played without any problems somewhere between the cult “Seven Churches” by Possessed and Obituary’s “Cause of Death”. The tough riff and strong solos in “Repent” and the heavy instrumental, called simply “Instrumental”, predispose to powerful headbanging and destroying the tiling of the floor. In other words – a strong debut, recommendatory for fans of good ol’ death metal. “Perpetual Decay” does not show anything revolutionary in a musical aspect, but the style in which it is recorded has already given its masterpieces, after all, so the rate of the album increases proportionally if you cover some of the following indicators: - your official outfit consists of soldier boots and a denim jacket with patches; - true death metal ends somewhere in the early nineties for you; - you use beer as lightener for whiskey; - when you say “music for table”, you mean something like “Blood, Pus & Gastric Juice”, and the table is the one for autopsies; - and most of all, if you’re into high-quality, raw, rude and fast metal.