It is a commonly held belief that Obituary’s last full-length, 2017’s self-titled release, is their best work since the early ’90s. Given that they helped define the death metal genre this is high praise indeed, but well earned, holding onto their classic sound but freshening it up and making it more dynamic. As such, expectations are high for Dying Of Everything, coming after a six-year gap, though the band arguably have nothing to prove. Let’s get it out of the way: Dying Of Everything does not match or beat its predecessor, but that is not to say that it is lacking in any department, for it is a crushing slab of the dark’n’hard stuff executed with merciless precision and delivered with a killer mix. They certainly kick things off the right way with the rampant...