Sworn Allegiance

In some respects, Unleashed is to death metal what AC/DC is to hard rock, or the Ramones to punk: creatively steady along the genre's formative guidelines to the point of repetition -- but so good at what they do that their tricks still seem to work every time.

After five years of stomping around in the wilderness from 1997-2002, UNLEASHED are back hacking out albums and on a roll again. While this is undeniably a good thing for death metal in general, it wouldn't necessarily be the second coming of (the anti) Christ as musical comebacks go. This is based...