St.Louis, Missouri quartet Summoning The Lich are an epic extreme metal fan’s wet dream. Peddling modern death metal for their debut album, United In Chaos, the whole thing is all wrapped up in a magnificently over-the-top dose of fantasy that is very much driven by four friends’ obsession with Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons. The first of three chapters, United In Chaos sees the Missouri shredders immersing the listener into the world of Lich and the fall of the Kingdom of Rodor. If that sounds epic enough for you and you love yourself a bit of The Black Dahlia Murder, then you’re going to lose your shit when opener “The Nightmare Begins” starts to rattle around your head. While that means that musically, United In Chaos won’t blow you away with its originality, if you’...
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