REVIEW SICKENING GORE "DESTRUCTIVE REALITY"

This time I would like to present you the only album of the Swiss death metal band Sickening Gore. This band from Zurich, which previously went by the name Reactor, released "Destructive Reality" on Massacre Records in 1993, only to disband a short time later. I still remember a review of a concert in a big German metal magazine, the band played in Zurich as support of Carcass. A review in the then issue of Metal Hammer compared the band stylistically to Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse. This is quite accurate, even if the world class of the compositions of Morbid Angel could not be reached, but which band can claim this? Nevertheless, the band varied on their only album skillfully between high-speed bludgeoning, grindcore influences and dragged parts.  Also the crazy guitar soli borrowed from American death metal in general and from Morbid Angel in particular can be heard. The associations to Cannibal Corpse happened surely, beside the similar musical stylistics, also because of the splatter logo and song titles like "Covered in blood" or "Psychopathic butchery". Nevertheless, especially the cover artwork stands out from the mass of artwork of the time, showing a rather surreal image of an ancient (or futuristic) portal in the middle of nowhere desert. So if you're looking for death metal gems that didn't make it to the top tier, Sickening Gore's "Destructive Reality" is your best bet!