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Prediction: it won’t take very long after hitting play on the YouTube embed of “Subsistence Will” below for our loyal Vault Hunters to come to the conclusion that Pannychida are really good at the whole 90s death metal thing. Well…there’s a reason for that – the Russian outfit actually formed back in 1992 and released a pair of full-lengths before the turn of the millennium. However, things have been awfully quiet on the Pannychida front since the release of their third album New World’s End in 2006. After toiling for three years in the studio, the Tatarstan-based quintet, who take their name from an all-night memorial service in the Eastern Orthodox church, are finally back with Missense Mutation, which drops on Halloween. Twelve years is a long time to wait between albums, but if you’re into being bludgeoned by your death metal, it was definitely worth it.

 

“Subsistence Will,”which we’re premiering here today at the Vault, perfectly encapsulates what makes Pannychida’s approach to the genre so satisfying. While the song may start off sounding like a bit of standard-issue Pestilence worship, guitarists Konstantin Chetverikov and Elena Trishina are capable of deftly throwing little surprise into their riffs–a harmonic here, a bit of stop-start there–to keep listeners on their toes. Bassist Stanislav Korchagin gets his moments to shine as well, with a couple of drop-out sections that showcase his jazzy lines.

 

https://www.indymetalvault.com/2018/10/29/track-premiere-pannychida-subsistence-will/

 

 

After three years of toil, the Russian death metal band Pannychida have completed their new album, Missense Mutation, and it’s now set for release on October 31st by Satanath Records and More Hate Productions. And guess what? We have a song premiere for you, a track off the new album named “Harmonious Mechanism“.

 

It would be fair to characterize the music as old school death metal, but of what kind? The releasing labels recommend the music for fans of Death, Pestilence, and Suffocation, and that provides some guidance. As for this song, let’s just say that if you’re feeling sleepy when you begin to listen, you won’t feel that way after you finish. Despite a sudden onset of sore-neck syndrome, you might instead feel like careening off the walls in a burst of savage merriment (or at least nodding your head and smiling in evil satisfaction).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pannychida don’t profess to have broken any molds in the crafting of their own creations, but they throw themselves into the effort with such riotous energy and such technically impressive execution that the energy they create is highly communicable.

 

Fast and ferocious, “Harmonious Mechanism” is full-throttle thrashing death with near-constant changes in riffing and rhythmic battering. The song combines hyper-speed tremolo swarming and frenetic jabbing and jolting riffs over an array of pulse-like bass lines. It sounds like a poisonous, seething boil one moment and the operation of a fully charged nail-gun the next, accented by blaring chords and ultimately ramping up to an impressive display of destructive chaos (preceded by the only slower segment within this attack, which makes room for the sound of creepy, mewling bass notes).

 

Meanwhile, the drummer pummels and gallops and the vocalist vents monstrous, intimidating roars — and everything combines in a way that gets the blood racing and the muscles twitching.

 

 

 

https://www.nocleansinging.com/2018/10/18/an-ncs-premiere-pannychida-harmonious-mechanism/

 

The Russian scene, however underrepresented internationally, is currently rising, as Pannychida who are coming back.

 

 

The Russian scene, however underrepresented internationally, is currently rising, as Pannychida who are coming back. Created in 1992, the band suffered line-up changes through their four full-length and celebrates this year their twenty-seven years of career with on board Dmitry Trishin (drums), Elena Trishina (guitar), Stanislav Korchagin (bass), Konstantin Chetverikov (guitar, originally vocals) and finally Denis Semenov (vocals). After long years of silence, Missense Mutation is released at the end of 2018 to reconnect with the Russians’ Death Metal dyed with Gothic influences. Be ready or suffer.

 

 

The track Missense Mutation begins this album with an Old School as hell riff that geniously highlights Gothic influences. After this melancholic introduction, rhythmic suddenly knock us down, under blast beat and the Russians’ fastness. Denis’ vocals perfectly fit to the sound, with his really low tessitura that allows the musicians to unleash themselves on the background. Bass is clearly brought to the fore, with this lead part that crops up while guitars become quieter. Mental Thromb is more impacting, with riffs that focus on technicity and fastness with a sharp mix, guitars answer to themselves during a harmonic duel before teaming up for an impressive groovy part, while Harmonious Mechanism comes back on this Old School side. Blast beat, pure and simple speed combined to a very efficient rhythmic. The only moment’s relief is the bass solo, before returning on powerful riffs.

We leave again for Groove/Brutal Death with Subsistence Will for a really greasy sound, really jerky and more importantly which makes us want to headbang since the firsts seconds. Very catchy but also very violent, the composition doesn’t hesitate to hasten before coming back to a softer rhythm, but still with this characteristic heaviness.While we think the track ends, it resumes a bit before leaving for Trapped, a resolutely more airy song, and not only during the introduction. But after the first half, another spurt stops this quiet atmosphere and will definitely strengthen the band’s sound. However, harmonics are still here, just like heaviness is part of Fear Generates Tolerance, a track that won’t let us question about the word violence’s meaning.

Dissonant sounds resurfaces on Blinds Lead Blinds, and even when riffs get stronger, those sounds still slip in harmonics that the guitar players skillfully play. Bass regains an important role for Absurd Attack, directly introducing the song and building upon the rhythmic with a slamming sound. Once again, the band plays the Old School card by offering an efficient song but that also relies upon Groove parts to be pleasant. A psychedelic tones guitar solo allows the band to link this long track’s different part, before ending on another solo and leave for False Victim. This last song, well focused on a heavy and dancing rhythmic, is also full of edged harmonics, and enable the band to close the record in beauty.

 

It’s a winning return for Pannychida with a Missense Mutation that was kindly desired but which meets our expectations. Focusing on an unhealthy, heavy and uncompromised Death Metal, the band adds its personal touch to a yet violent style. We can wish the russians a bit more of international recognition, but also to pursue in this way they succeed in.

 

https://actainfernalis.com/2019/01/27/review-155-pannychida-missense-mutation-english/

 

The Russian scene, however underrepresented internationally, is currently rising, as Pannychida who are coming back.

 

 

The Russian scene, however underrepresented internationally, is currently rising, as Pannychida who are coming back. Created in 1992, the band suffered line-up changes through their four full-length and celebrates this year their twenty-seven years of career with on board Dmitry Trishin (drums), Elena Trishina (guitar), Stanislav Korchagin (bass), Konstantin Chetverikov (guitar, originally vocals) and finally Denis Semenov (vocals). After long years of silence, Missense Mutation is released at the end of 2018 to reconnect with the Russians’ Death Metal dyed with Gothic influences. Be ready or suffer.

 

 

 

The track Missense Mutation begins this album with an Old School as hell riff that geniously highlights Gothic influences. After this melancholic introduction, rhythmic suddenly knock us down, under blast beat and the Russians’ fastness. Denis’ vocals perfectly fit to the sound, with his really low tessitura that allows the musicians to unleash themselves on the background. Bass is clearly brought to the fore, with this lead part that crops up while guitars become quieter. Mental Thromb is more impacting, with riffs that focus on technicity and fastness with a sharp mix, guitars answer to themselves during a harmonic duel before teaming up for an impressive groovy part, while Harmonious Mechanism comes back on this Old School side. Blast beat, pure and simple speed combined to a very efficient rhythmic. The only moment’s relief is the bass solo, before returning on powerful riffs.

We leave again for Groove/Brutal Death with Subsistence Will for a really greasy sound, really jerky and more importantly which makes us want to headbang since the firsts seconds. Very catchy but also very violent, the composition doesn’t hesitate to hasten before coming back to a softer rhythm, but still with this characteristic heaviness.While we think the track ends, it resumes a bit before leaving for Trapped, a resolutely more airy song, and not only during the introduction. But after the first half, another spurt stops this quiet atmosphere and will definitely strengthen the band’s sound. However, harmonics are still here, just like heaviness is part of Fear Generates Tolerance, a track that won’t let us question about the word violence’s meaning.

Dissonant sounds resurfaces on Blinds Lead Blinds, and even when riffs get stronger, those sounds still slip in harmonics that the guitar players skillfully play. Bass regains an important role for Absurd Attack, directly introducing the song and building upon the rhythmic with a slamming sound. Once again, the band plays the Old School card by offering an efficient song but that also relies upon Groove parts to be pleasant. A psychedelic tones guitar solo allows the band to link this long track’s different part, before ending on another solo and leave for False Victim. This last song, well focused on a heavy and dancing rhythmic, is also full of edged harmonics, and enable the band to close the record in beauty.

 

It’s a winning return for Pannychida with a Missense Mutation that was kindly desired but which meets our expectations. Focusing on an unhealthy, heavy and uncompromised Death Metal, the band adds its personal touch to a yet violent style. We can wish the russians a bit more of international recognition, but also to pursue in this way they succeed in.

 

https://actainfernalis.com/2019/01/27/review-155-pannychida-missense-mutation-english

 

Si te gusta la buena tralla presta mucha atención a este lanzamiento que co-editado por los sellos Satanath Records y More Hate Productions el pasado año 2018, me refiero al nuevo álbum de la veterana banda rusa de Death Metal PANNYCHIDA. Un proyecto que publicó su primera demo allá por el año 1993, “Service For The Dead”, y que desde entonces ha ido sacando material con la regularidad que que ha sido posible, dejando trabajos como la demo en directo de 1995 que llevaba el título de “Being The Amorphous Ignorance”, o los discos autoproducidos “Here You Are!” y “Defragmentation”, y el más reciente “New World’s End” publicado en 2006 (Mazzar/Mystic Empire). Incluso llegaron a participar en un split titulado “[AIDS] Rock Front”. En cualquier caso, tras estos últimos años de silencio discográfico la banda regresa repleta de energía.

 

“Missense Mutation” es el título de este nuevo álbum de PANNYCHIDA, el cual ha llevado tres años de trabajo en los estudios Mange Records, con la mezcla y masterización realizada posteriormente en TsunTsun Productions. Y, pese a que ha llevado su tiempo, el resultado ha merecido la pena ya que los nueve cortes que incluye el álbum suenan absolutamente demoledores, sin perder ese toque underground alejado de arreglos superfluos o una excesiva nitidez. Pura tralla a base de Death Metal pesado y dinámico, en la onda de bandas como SUFFOCATION, DYING FETUS o CANNIBAL CORPSE, por citar algunas referencias conocidas. Vamos, que puedes esperarte una dosis de brutalidad, groove y violencia sonora de lo más adictiva, a pesar de que la originalidad brille por su ausencia.

 

Un amasijo de carne desparramada de la que aparecen un par de rostros, obra de Timur Khabirov Art, es lo que sirve de portada para este regreso de PANNYCHIDA, una cubierta con un rollo más bien actual que funciona bien, aunque yo hubiese preferido ese estilo de las portadas de antaño, que creo encaja mejor con lo que representa “Missense Mutation”. Y es que la contundencia sonora de estos tipos recuerda en gran medida a los clásicos del Brutal Death Metal, siendo una opción muy recomendable para cualquiera que quiera destrozarse las cervicales agitando la cabeza mientras el volumen atronador hace temblar las paredes. Eso sí, si tienes los oídos delicados, es mejor que no te acerques a este álbum, puede hacerte daño.

 

https://noizzwebzine.blogspot.com/2019/04/pannychida-missense-mutation.html

 

When looking for some great new metal albums More Hate Productions is always a good place to start with. One of their newest outputs has been delivered by Russian death metal warriors Pannychida. For whatever reason there has been a break of twelve years between their last album and “Missense Mutation”.

 

Pannychida walk the path between the classic structures of old school death metal and a more modern and technical approach with ease and self-confidence. The main riffs should make fans of Morbid Angel etc. feel right at home. There are flashes of technical prowess that build up a slightly chaotic atmosphere in some sections before the thundering death metal machine is marching in straight line again. Pannychida are great songwriters and use these elements to give the listener sometimes a feeling of relief when the already known rhythm takes over again. When I say “chaotic atmosphere” this does not mean that they ever lose the focus of the actual song but implement this kind of twists very cleverly.

 

The drumming is especially impressive as I can imagine that it is not always easy to follow all those rhythm and tempo changes with such ease. The combination of blast-beats and more laid-back and groovy pieces is what makes “Missense Mutation” such a fresh and interesting listen. The main chords and the pummeling drum attacks are accompanied by some fantastic lead hooks that often have a quite harmonic feeling and other times do sound a bit strange and slightly quirky.

 

As instrumentation played on such a high level asks for a powerful vocalist I am glad to report that Denis is exactly that. His roaring and growling is very intense and his delivery is on point. While some could argue that his deep tone might come across as a bit monotonous I personally think this is exactly what is needed here. His pronunciation is great making all the lyrics easily understandable.

 

The production is thick and heavy giving the songs an immense punch. The drums have this brutal tone that makes the whole music feel like a bulldozer at full speed. The rumbling bass is audible and is used to great effect as solo instrument in some sections. Including a stunning cover artwork “Missense Mutation” is another highlight and easily one of the best records of the genre released over the past few months.

 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Pannychida/Missense_Mutation/737945/Edmund_Sackbauer/402292

 

What we have here is a seasoned Death Metal band which formed way back in 1992 in Russia. These guys know whats up and have a good sense of what good Death Metal should sound like. From break neck blasting speeds to slow groovy riffs all executed perfectly. What I love most about the production here is the bass which shines through in important parts and doesn’t overstay its welcome in parts where it is not necessary to be so audible.

 

From beginning to end you are served very well thought out riffs and arrangements. I love when bands throw in little bass guitar runs and this fits this album so well. The vocalist fits this band like a glove. A perfect marriage of great vocals and brutal, and sometimes quite technical music.  You can hear the band has been around for so long. Newer bands struggle to find their place and need nurturing before finding their sound. These guys have perfected their sound and its magnificent.

 

Russia isn’t really known for producing many great bands, but Pannychida will make a new effort for me to delve deeper into the Russian scene.  The album starts off with the title track and you can hear the bands presentation of what is to come in just the first few moments. Track number 5 titled “Trapped” starts off with a short acoustic riff and then breaks into one of the best tracks I have heard in quite some time.

 

This is a great album and I am very happy it landed on my desk. I am a very picky guy when it comes to Death Metal and this album excites me. I will definitely be diving into their discography right now.

 

http://www.vm-underground.com/review/pannychida-missense-mutation/

 

Death metal sem grandes contemplações ainda que algo técnico. Boas malhas e passando por cima de toda a temática retro versus ultra-moderno vs influências-core, os Pannychida trazem-nos aquilo que dominam, death metal bruto mas dinâmico e extremamente conseguido. Um daqueles álbuns que mesmo sem nos impressionar pela originalidade, impressionam pela forma como nos cativa sem dificuldades.

 

https://worldofmetalmag.com

 

 

Фактом является то, что насчет казанской группы PANNYCHIDA я много чего порасспрашивал у Дмитрия Тришина, ударника этой бригады и сейчас шефа всего угарного заведения.

И сделал интервью с ним. 

Для всех, кто интересуется олдовыми делами, как они происходили у нас (учитывайте, что PANNYCHIDA свое демо "Service For The Dead" записали в 1993 году!!!). Ну не шок ли? Как это все было давно!

Цитата из интервью: «Как сподобились играть дет метал? Да уж время было такое "благоприятное". Кругом гопники бегают, монтажками машут. Благодать). Мне повезло. Я попал в совершено иную среду (так бывает, да!да!) Где люди слушали от Назарет и Мейденов до Пинк флойда и WASP. Ну и я с ними».

Но все-таки давайте перейдем к музыке, а это у нас ДЭТ-металл. Группа записала 4 полноформата, сабжевый - Missense Mutation как раз через 12 лет после третьего. (Тришин и про это рассказал, что и как).

Группа начинает со своеобразного интро, где гитарно пробивает ряд мелодических убойных атак, совокупно с ударными, которые с первых нот показывают, что если кому нужны барабаны войны - это обращаться как раз сюда. Ну а потом включается олдовый дэт-металл, округлый, многотонный валун, который катится мидтемпо с пригорка на пригорок, вдавливая в грунт все, что попадется на пути. И словно не только тяготение руководит им, а будто мощная энергетическая станция в нем работает, струнно так дает угара, подчеркну, гитарными пассажами, - буровящими, гиперактивными, они-то, вероятно, и являются движителем группы. Гитариста два здесь (посмотрел в буклет), причем даже так точнее: гитарист К. Четвериков и гитаристка — Е. Тришина. Вот они и составили мощное атомное гитарное наступление (часто драммер рубит в мидтемпо). Все в итоге получается внятно и экспрессивно. И указанный гиперактивный риффинг — обжигающий, выпуклый, да что уж там - как резак сварочного аппарата, это кажется фирменный знак PANNYCHIDA.

Но, естественно, не только мидтемпово давит танковыми траками формация, ведь даже русский танк Т-80 по шоссе заявлен до 65 км в час, а говорят и более. Так и наша мрачная PANNYCHIDA бодро разгоняется и дает скоростные композиции, и приятно, что, например, в Subsistance Will вокаллер своим гроулингом не отстает от несущейся стальной машины, а даже и подгоняет эти смертоносные тонны. Д. Семенов отвечает за вокалы… и точка.

Ураганная композиция Absurd Attacks одна из длинных на компакте - 6.35, и потому музыканты именно здесь решили показать, что Паннихида способна больше, чем на дэт-металл... До джаз-дэта и техно-дэта в этот раз не допилили, но именно здесь структуры усложнились, и этажерка слоев техничных (ага!!!) струнных именно в этом трэке поползла в небеса, сомневаюсь, конечно, что в рай, но магистраль, тем не менее получилась высокотехнологичная(!). И вокалист соответствовал поставленным задачам, оборачивая тяжелые арматурины гитарных изысков шершавыми низкочастотными вокалами. Решив мидтемпово нагнать аудиального террора, композер раздал занятные задания, и ведь музыканты справились на отлично.

 

https://vk.com/wall216331265_3982

 

I love all sorts of metal equally but depending on the mood I am in I crave different things. But something I never say no to is a good death metal album. No matter what mood I am in a death metal album always comes in handy. Russian PANNYCHIA play a sort of death metal that has a lot of tempo changes. Not really my number one style but they do it so good that I cannot stop listening. So if you like your death metal with break beats you are advised to check this one out. Technical death metal I guess they call this.

 

http://battlehelm.com/reviews/pannychia-missense-mutation/

 

 

Never heard of this Russian death metal band before, but the biography says it was formed in 1992. Since its formation only Dmitry Trishin (drums) left. Besides him you can welcome the next musicians: Denis Semenov (vocals), Constantin Chetverikov (guitar), Elena Trishina (guitar), Stanislav Korchagin (bass & all guitar solos). "Missense Mutation" is the fourth full-length album in the band's discography, which consists of 9 typical death metal songs with all the lately used clichйs. I really found nothing special in their music, except the ripping sound production. Unfortunately, it is the kind of release that won't have a second listening session. Don't get me wrong, the musicians are handling their instruments perfectly with a certain technical level and their songs really sound massive and professional, but the entire lack of interesting hooks, informative melodies, charismatic vocal parts makes a grey picture about the band itself. Super boring and monotonous these words appeared in my mind during the almost 42 and a half minutes long stuff. Let's hope there will be some positive changes both music- and idea-wise on their forthcoming fifth album!!!

 

http://castrum.com.ua/encomium/6albums3.htm

 

Pannychida n'est pas tout jeune, formé en 1992, et distille un Death Metal lourd et gras à la sauce Morbid Angel. Vous voyez l'idée ? En bref, l'uppercut sera direct et sans sommation, envoyé dans votre mâchoire avec force. De quoi vous forcer à quelques aller-retours chez votre dentiste familial.

Missense Mutation, sorti en 2018 sur les labels russes Satanah Records & More Hate Productions, est le nom du crochet qui vous est destiné, après 12 années de silence studio. Retour bienvenu pour une production, vous allez le voir, de qualité !

 

Toute forme d'introduction est bien futile ! Pannychida taille directement dans le gras en entamant par un riff de guitare accrocheur qui précède une salve de riffs Death Metal classiques mais bigrement bien composés, sur lequel la voix puissante de Denis Semyonov scande de délicates paroles. On retrouve tous les ingrédients qui fonctionnent : série d'accords plaqués en palm mute, trémolos, syncopes... Les accords dissonants sont aussi de la partie, le tout accompagné d'une basse au son claquant qui n'hésite pas à tailler dans l’aigu pour se faire entendre. Les fondations sont posées dès le titre éponyme, ce qui présage de bonnes choses pour la suite de l'album !

 

Et en effet, la suite est à la hauteur avec une intensité continue d'un bout à l'autre de l'opus. Côté écriture, les lignes de guitares notamment sont intelligemment variées et explorent dissonances, polyphonies, accords ou trémolos coupant court à toute forme de répétition. Sur "Subsistence Will" par exemple, la batterie nous assène de coups de matraques tandis que le galop des guitares place l'esthétique musicale entre celles de Suffocation et Cannibal Corpse.

 

L'introduction de "Trapped" permet une reprise de souffle en plein centre de l'album grâce à quelques arpèges en clair avant le retour dans l'abysse. Certains titres comme "Absurd Attacks" évoquent presque un Death technique proche de Revocation, mais l'absence de solos nous empêcherait de classer le groupe comme tel. Pour autant, les compositions sont loin d'être pour novices avec des rythmiques complexes exécutées avec une précision chirurgicale.

 

Ainsi donc, le réveil de Pannychida n'aura pas été vain. Comme dit plus haut, Missense Mutation saura plaire aux fans de Revocation, Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, ou encore Death et Deicide. Fidèles à leur style, les musiciens nous offrent un retour puissant, lourd et digne de l'héritage Death Metal qu'ils portent dans l'ombre depuis les années 90'. Petite pépite trop peu connue, qui mérite une meilleure visibilité, en espérant qu'ils ne tomberont pas cette fois dans un sommeil éternel.

 

https://www.scholomance-webzine.com/2019/11/chronique-pannychida-missense-mutation.html

 

 

Когда мне в руки попадает альбом той или иной «олдовой» команды, я невольно вздыхаю – в основном из-за нежелания делать скидки за возраст, за заслуги, за «да нас когда-то сам Толя Крупнов объявлял» и прочее, без которых обзор нередко превращается в банальный разнос решивших вспомнить молодость дедов. Критика и неуважение - это все-таки разные вещи, но подчас сами музыканты этого понять не в состоянии. К чему я это? Да к тому, что казанская дэт-метал-группа Pannychida существует с начала 90-х и все еще здравствует! Получается, я еще мультики по телеку смотрел, когда эти ребята начали в подвалах собираться музыку играть. И вышедший в 2018 году сабж в их скромной дискографии уже четвертый полноформатный релиз, однако первый аж с 2006 года. Итак, прикиньте, что у меня творилось в голове – чувакам почти тридцатник, альбома долго не было, что ж сейчас начнется-то?! В целом опасения начали развеиваться уже от одного взгляда на обложку, весьма модерновую и без откровенного нафталина или, как я это называю, «независимого дилетантства», в полной мере воплотившегося на новом альбоме Мастера. И имя вокалиста мне показалось знакомым… Да это же Денис из Indeterminable, еще одной дэт-метал-группы из Татарстана, на чей концерт я умудрился когда-то попасть! Что же, наличие относительно знакомых личностей в буклете также не является индульгенцией, но по-своему приятно. Значит, ребята не прожженные пенсионеры, можно спокойно выдохнуть и послушать, что же они выдали. Сабж продемонстрировал редкую для великовозрастных и не очень музыкантов способность делать музыку такой же взрослой, как и ее авторы. И способность хорошо играть экстремальщину. То, что натворили Pannychida, вкратце можно описать как интересный дэт-метал с элементами грув-метала и чего-то технично-прогрессивного. Мне они даже чем-то напомнили петербургский коллектив Stalwart, только без клавишных, и нижегородский Trigger. Вполне достойная и динамичная рубиловка, немного сбавляющая к концу альбома обороты. Материал я бы не назвал сильно цепляющим, но весьма достойным. Тут ведь у нас не кружок интеллектуальной музыки, а самый настоящий дэт со всеми вытекающими. Но надо отдать группе должное – несмотря на некоторую прямолинейность альбома, ребята всеми силами пытаются вытянуть его и разнообразить буквально на пустом месте, в том числе и за счет мощной подачи. И это получается. Как и у меня когда-то со Stalwart, в такой материал с первого раза не въехать, сабж стоит прогнать, наверное, раза три, чтобы понять, насколько он неплох и пришелся ли вообще по вкусу. Потому что с первого раза он может показаться банальной и безвкусной долбежкой, коей ни разу не является. Сразу ясно лишь одно – возраст для этой группы нисколько не отмазка от того, что надо делать свое дело качественно, и никакие скидки не понадобились. "Missense Mutation" я бы не назвал супер-релизом, но он по-своему крут, хорош, весьма конкурентосопособен и соответствует многим стилистическим канонам и стереотипам, которые в этом случае почему-то работают в нужном направлении, создавая максимально приятное впечатление.

 

http://headbanger.ru/reviews/album-5001

 

Latest death metal pearl released by Satanath Records is Missense Mutation. It’s a 9-tracker sonic assault from a veteran Russian death metal band Pannychida. Formed back in 1992 (the band suffered a few line-up changes) these guys know to write and execute perfect death metal songs.

 

From the opening and self-titled “Missense Mutation” (listen below) to the closing riff on “False Victim” it’s all served with well thought riffs, perfect arrangement and most importantly a neck-breaking, heavy and thick production, esp. the bass which shines through in important parts. Even the vocalist fits the overall style of playing and image of this band. His vocals are understandable and a great mix of brutal, growling, yet sometimes technical and quiet.

 

Same goes for whole band, creating the sound that is a magnificent mix of the classic old-school death metal structures with a more modern and technical approach. Take drumming too; I find it pretty impressive with a combination of blast-beats and more slow and groovier parts.

 

Thus, “Missense Mutation” gives just an idea for what is to some on the following tracks. ”Harmonious Mechanism” is pretty much old-school death metal anthem with numerous blast beats, relentless speed combined to a very efficient rhythmic. Track titled “Trapped” starts off with a short acoustic riff and then breaks into one of the best tracks on the record. The aforementioned bass plays an important role for “Absurd Attack”, introducing the song and building upon the rhythmic with a slamming sound.

 

The atmosphere on Missense Mutation is quite chaotic to times, but again fits perfectly to the overall style of this band. Finally, take a look at this stunning cover artwork… definitely another highlight of this release!

 

This is a great album and I am very happy I decided to write a review of it. Pannychida definitely needs more international recognition for the fantastic brutal sound they’re creating and I’m glad I hereby could give them time and attention they deserve!

 

https://www.metal-revolution.com/reviews/pannychida-missense-mutation

 

Video review.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST02xWCxNKw