Release Date: 24 October 2025
Song Count: 8
Duration: 28 minutes, 32 seconds
Rating: 7.0/10
Description:
On today's music menu special is the debut album of Québecois death metal band Scorching Tomb and a relatively recent release, Ossuary. The band, though having released only a few works so far, has been in the scene since 2019 and is showcasing a promising start from themselves, beginning to gather the attention and interest of metal music fans.
This shorter album delivers essentially what it promises: some classic, good-old death metal - and neither anything more nor anything less. The tracks, while incorporating some semblance of musicality into their grooves and guitar riffs, mainly sticks to its lane without going on an outright melodic branch, and notably switch between time signatures on a regular basis between 4/4 and 3/4 or 6/8 to differentiate themselves from one another, most of them keeping what is pretty much the same type and volume of sound down to even the key.
The main standout song amongst them all is the opener "Stalagmite Impalement", as its leading riff to kick things off is by far the most ear-catching out of practically anything else the songs have to offer. While the other songs are not in any way lacking in quality or uninteresting to listen to, they don't do all that spectacular of a job at forming their own sound either, bleeding into each other and somewhat dragging the bunch down as it adds up through most of the songs. Thankfully, however, this lack of variation within their sound, while a drawback for certain, could be quite a lot worse, as there are some efforts in the way the speeds, grooves and time signatures change to rectify this issue to limited avail, and none of the tracks are particularly long to the point of this outright boring the listener and staining its listenability for any significant amount of time.
If you're in the mood for 28 minutes of some simple headbanging OSDM music without much else to ask for, Ossuary almost definitely is the album you are looking for. While this is far from the metal album I hold up the highest, even amongst those I've rated on this site so far, this is still a solid collection of songs that get their job done, and I optimistically believe that Scorching Tombs has a lot of potential to rise up further in popularity and perhaps even become a household name in the world of death metal in the future.