Band:	Catarsis Incarne
Album:	Katharma
Style:	Death metal
Release date:	August 2011

01. Falsos Hijos Del Sol
02. Yo Me Cree
03. Katharma 12 (Exhumacion De Abya Yala)
04. Insinuacion Insidiosa
05. A ABADtir
06. Condena
07. Subconsciente 1010011010
08. Ausencia Total De Materia

Generic death metal can be pretty fun, but a little uniqueness goes a long, long way. And, if anything, Katharma is a unique death metal album. But damn it, Catarsis Incarnae, this isn't 'Nam. This is death metal. There are rules. If your riffs are hardly ever rabid and maniacal-sounding, and the production is totally sterile, your audience among death metallers isn't one I can picture.

Katharma never really comes together and the genre-tampering on this ultimately feels half-assed. Sure, it has a number catchy and evil sounding riffs (listen to "Auscencia Total" and "Subconsciente 10001110101") and pretty savage vocals, but everything comes out sounding directionless and vacuous by the end. Either the stylistically unorthodox approach will kill songs before they can really get rolling, or the absurdly sanitized production will.

And that's a bummer. Like with so many other young, unsigned death metal groups, there's a lot of skill to be heard on this. And, icing on the top, doesn't seem like Catarsis set out to please the Neanderthal-lite death metal fans who fold their arms and scowl at shows when genre-staples aren't being tortured on stage--the "these guys don't sound like Deicide... man, fuck these guys" guys. But there just isn't enough meat on this album. Catarsis know how important riffs to make listeners want to sprint around with boar thighs and blunt weapons in their hands with death metal are, and they know the importance of being unique, but they didn't execute their shit very well on this. It just feels over-produced and over-planned by the end.