The Spectre Over Surabaya Emerging from the ever-crowded Indonesian death metal community, Surabaya’s Deathroned are not a band I was particularly familiar with, something which made their latest EP all the better on a first encounter. I only recently became familiar with their last EP, 2020’s Perdition Liturgy which did not exactly endear me with its Sunlight Studios buzzsaw death metal sound. Some of it had a slight Gothenburg-melodeath tinge (another irritating factor) yet there were moments of sinister melody that while somewhat smothered by the now tedious HM-2 sound, were not entirely buried. Fast forward three years and the … Continue reading Review: Deathroned – Demo MMXXIII