Legendary death metal band Death Courier are one of the earliest bands from the Greek metal scene releasing a slew of demos from way back in 1987 and putting out an album and an EP in the early ’90s. More than three decades later, the band is on the verge of releasing one of the strongest albums to come from the Greek death metal scene.

It’s hard to believe that this is the same band because the energy level is off the charts and everything has been amped up to match present day standards without of course changing the core sound and integrity. The music is still essentially the pulsating, rabid death/thrash metal kind and there remains that palpable hunger in the members to create memorable and gnarly music that they were known for. This is a lethal new album that throws down the gauntlet to the naysayers doubting the band’s prowess after so many years, who will invariably be forced to eat their words. Necrotic Verses will grab you by the throat and won’t let go till the shockingly potent album is over. Death Courier have set new standards for themselves and others to look up to, all over again.

Of course our own resident death dealer Michael Stronge has been listening to the album for some little while now, and he had this to say about Necrotic Verses: “It’s death metal as we’ve always known it, for sure, but there’s a vital freshness about Death Courier’s storming new album Necrotic Verses that means you’ll keep coming back for another little sniff of it’s fetid ‘goodness’ time and time again. And if Mourning Ecstacy isn’t in your top ten death metal tracks of 2020 at year’s end I shall need a note from your Mum giving me a very good reason why”…