Now we all know that if an album has the Unique Leader stamp of approval on the back of it, you’re in for thirty to forty minutes of the musical equivalent to getting your head stamped on. It’s something the label and their acts are very good at delivering but, occasionally, they like to mix things up a bit, which is exactly what they’ve done with A Hill To Die Upon, the third album from German epic death metal troop, Mental Cruelty. Following on from 2019’s offering, Inferis, this collection sees the Germans exploring a wider landscape than that of their previous offering which rarely diverted from its more traditional deathcore path. While their Inferis disc saw them dabble in symphonies, to compare this to their often criticized second album would be doing both albums an injustice. Howe...
