Kaamos - Scales of Leviathan
March 23 2008 at 08:21:50 PM

Last words are best kept brief and this posthumous release by Kaamos delivers what may be their finest and definitely final work. This five-track MCD, recorded in last half of 2006 showcases the group’s hitherto solid but unsurprising brand of Death Metal with something of a stringy, wrangled feeling, as if shook by Leviathan’s jaws themselves; churning as the sea of blood and salt-water from which its titular legend emerges; craven, fiercest death from the black abyss, bathed in moonlight, breathing sulphur. Not a great beast, but a killer inside a sea of rotten prawns. Farewell…
[Todd DePalma]