Reviewed by Tony Cummings

If you were wandering around the dark hinterland of the LA metal club scene in May you'd have caught this team opening for secular thrashers Entombed. These guys deserve a bit of attention for to these grizzled ears they're a vastly superior band to overrated and overexposed US bands like Vengeance Rising. Renaissance By Death' has a set of dark and sombre songs like "Stroll Through A Wicked Age" and "Assas­sin In The Midst" a pretty tough line in surging rushes of angry sound and ably demonstrate that not all US metalers are bent on becoming AOR pretty boys

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