Recorded at Dirty Sound Records by Mario and Hugo Uribe (the legendary founders of WITCHTRAP), the production on Path of No Return (November 2025) is classic raw aggression. It’s heavy and thick without being muddy—perfectly capturing the band's savage, primitive energy- and honoring the genre's roots.

After an eight-year wait since their debut "Premature Burial," Colombian death metal outfit Defamatory returns with "Path of No Return," and they haven't strayed from their mission: delivering uncompromising old-school death metal that sounds like it crawled out of the early '90s scene.

This is straightforward, no-frills death metal for purists. If you grew up on Obituary, Carcass, and Malevolent Creation, Defamatory will feel like slipping on a familiar leather jacket. The production, handled at Dirty Sound Records by WITCHTRAP founders Mario and Hugo Uribe, strikes that sweet spot between raw aggression and clarity—it's brutal without being muddy, heavy without losing definition.

The album gets down to it right away; launching into "Degrading Being," a four-minute beast defined by dive-bombing guitar leads and reverb-drenched growls that instantly channel classic Obituary. "Ascent into Decay" and "Summoning Hate" keep the pressure high with thrashy riffs, though the latter introduces a slightly jazzier, waltz-like rhythm (heavy version) that provides a brief, dark variation in the chaos. The guitar solos throughout are consistently strong, melding seamlessly with the songs rather than feeling tacked on.

"Elusive Truth" is a standout highlight, shifting from early Carcass vibes into the kind of dark, thrashy grooves that make you want to put a fist through a wall. The record maintains its relentless pace through tracks like "Corruption of the Corpse," which utilizes a marching beat before diving back into the abyss, and ends with the furious "Ritual Torment".

This album doesn't reinvent the wheel. It crushes you with it.

Every track follows a blueprint of being fast, heavy, and dark. While some might find the consistency repetitive, for death metal traditionalists like myself, it’s exactly what the genre should be: a concentrated dose of heaviness that doesn't overstay its welcome.

Recommended for fans of: Obituary, Carcass, Malevolent Creation, Death, Morbid Angel

Rating: A solid headbanger for old-school death metal enthusiasts. No frills, no filler—just straightforward brutality done right.

Get the album here: Awakening Records

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