Xaoc - Repulsive Summoning (2025)

For some reason I thought previous Xaoc album Proxime Mortis would be the last one, but I've been happy to discover that Tony Petrocelli (Xaoc guitarist and leader) gathered new musicians and released Repulsive Summoning in 2025. To be frank, I prefer Proxime Mortis, but Repulsive Summing is still a solid album, good brutal death songs with finely executed melodic leads.

 

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Xaoc - Proxime Mortis (2022)

Xaoc was a band with Tony Petrocelly (the one who did Pain Tank which I reviewed HERE), it existed in 2006-2008, but a few members (Davis Mullen on vocals, J.Alexander on guitars and Giulio Galati , from Hideous Divinity, on drums) have been recruited to record an album, Proxime Mortis, that has been released in 2022. And we can be grateful for that because it's an awesome album! Rooted in old-school US death metal, it is brutal and technical enough, with a slight modern touch as well, but not too much. But the main strength of the album is the songwriting that works really well, with catchy and memorable songs and dynamism throughout the album. The only thing wrong is that the band doesn't exist any more...  

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