Dragon metal

My digging into this forgotten 'treasure' trove continues. The bove album cover looks too simple to be mean but the contents (the music) are brutal. Dim Mak consists of the other Ripping Corpse members who didn't ply their music in Hate Eternal. The death metal offered here has a trace of cross-over/ hardcore to it which makes it more acceptable but that's being too nice, really. What I enjoy most are the drums; I'd deem the materials here to be brutal precision. Then drummer Brandon Thomas (current Dim Mak drummer is John Longstreth) could pretty much generate any beat types at any speed; that's how lethal he is. All that with extreme precision to boot. He virtually over-shadowed everybody in this album in terms of technical delivery. I could have easily deemed this as a drum album per se but Shaune Kelly & Dennis Carrol were also masters of their own delivery.

Speaking of Shaune Kelly, he pretty much stuck to his Ibanez S-series for all the Dim Mak releases, even for his stint in Hate Eternal, it's the Ibanez through & through. Enter the Dragon was released in 1999 where grunge is living out its twilight moments to pave way for more guitar uprising.