Review: Frozen Soul's 'Crypt of Ice' out now (on ltd Baby Blue Vinyl)

January 8, 2021

It’s one week into 2021 and Frozen Soul already released what may very well end up as one of the best death metal albums of the year. From my BrooklynVegan review:

Dallas’ Frozen Soul quickly emerged as one of the brightest new voices in the Texas hardcore/metal scene with their killer 2019 demo/EP Encased In Case, and that led to them signing to Century Media who are now issuing the band’s debut album, Crypt of Ice. It includes re-recordings of all three original songs from the demo plus seven new songs, and all of them offer up no-bullshit, ass-kicking death metal. Frozen Soul cite influences like Obituary, Mortician and Bolt Thrower, and they owe as much to those bands’ thrashy death riffs and beastly growls as they do to the simplicity of hardcore, which makes sense given vocalist Chad Green previously did time in the hardcore-turned-death metal band End Times (whose guitarist Daniel Schmuck produced/mixed Crypt of Ice and has also worked with Power Trip, Creeping Death, and others). Frozen Soul don’t shy away from the fact that their core influences are 25-30 years old, but they aren’t retro or gimmicky about it either. They just stay true to who they are and what they love, and they write adrenaline-rush-inducing songs in the process.

You can stream it below, and we’re also selling it on LIMITED EDITION BABY BLUE VINYL in the new BrooklynVegan/Invisible Oranges store. Get ’em while they’re cold.