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Benediction Killing Music (Nuclear Blast) Review by Chris Davison My name is Chris Davison, and I am a fucking retard. There, I've said it. The reason for my self effacing introductory outburst? Well, for the longest time I thought Benediction were a second rate British death metal outfit that couldn't write a decent tune if they had a pistol held at the heads of their loved ones. I'm not sure why or when I formed this opinion, but I remember round about the turn of the 1990s that I was so sure that this was the case that I simply lost touch with what they were doing. Bare in mind that at that time I also had a very poor and misjudged musical affair with alternative tosh like Senser and Dog Eat Dog, which distracted me from my previous and subsequent monogamous relationship with heavy metal. That all changed on a rainy Saturday in Derby in 2007, when I saw the revitalised Benediction (with new frontman, Anaal Nathrakh singer Dave Hunt), and “Benny Dixon” simply blew me away with their ferocity and the quality of their tunes. For the most part, Killing Music (which is simply pun tastic, guys), is straight ahead, old school death metal with no frills and a punky sound and attitude. This suits me right down to the ground. All the constituent ingredients for great death metal is here. We have decipherable but nether the less diabolic sounding growled vocals, grinding guitars that have a great sound, bringing to mind Napalm Death in their “Harmony Corruption” days. We have drums that sound like a belt fed .50 calibre being let loose on a sea of advancing troops, and the bass rumbles along in an extremely Bolt Thrower