Affliction (Tur) - Execution Is Necessary
Swedish melodic death metal straight from the motherland…Turkey. This is the first Turkish metal I’ve heard, and I’m impressed. Hailing from Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city, Affliction recast late ’90s Gothenburg melodeath with some modern influences (blastbeats, Pantera-ish swing, Meshuggah-esque choppiness). What by now is a familiar sound in Western metal must be quite alien...