War Zone (Warzone - Jungle Rot)

Member Name: Frankingsteins

Product:	Warzone - Jungle Rot
Date:	11/08/08 (17 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: More of the same.

Disadvantages: More of the same.

Jungle Rot are masters of the craft of producing exactly the same thing time and time again. 'War Zone' will hold no surprises whatsoever to those who heard the previous album, nor anyone who has heard a death metal album from the early 1990s before the genre started to break into new, exciting directions. Bands such as Jungle Rot cater for those stalwart metal snobs who prefer the style in its purest form, specifically the aspect of hearing pretty much the same song over and over again.

I can't fairly rate this album down merely for being unoriginal, as the execution of the style is really very good. The groove-based guitar riffs are impressive in songs such as 'Savage Rite,' and there's enough structural variety in each song to keep them interesting as independent entities, even if listening to the whole thing becomes rather tedious. The only song to really break out of the repetitive style is the slower finale 'Killing Spree,' but even this isn't enough to raise this above the level of mediocrity. If this had been released fifteen years earlier, it might have been a death metal classic. But where would it have stolen all of its ideas from then?

1. Victims of Violence
2. Cut in Two
3. Savage Rite
4. They Gave Their Lives
5. Strong Shall Survive
6. Decapitated
7. Ready for War
8. Ambushed
9. Fight for Life
10. Territoriality
11. Killing Spree

Summary: Jungle Rot's fifth album (2006).