‘The Alteration’ is the debut-album of Ascendant, a death/black-metal band from Denmark, that used to work under the name ‘Amorém’ since 2006, but changed names as they think of this album as a new chapter to their story.

Josua, Levi, Thomas, Kristoffer and Jens use different musical styles, but mainly tend to move around the death-metal-area. Heavy riffs, repeating rhythms and raw grunts are the standard, but diversity comes around the corner as black-screams, melodic heavy-metal guitar-solos and grinding hardcore-rhythms are integrated in the sound as well.
Knowing that almost everything is already done in death-metal and every metal-sound-combination already has been made, I think it’s brave that these guys still try to find a new sound. Continue reading »