One of the saving graces, I think, for death metal in this era - a full 20 years after its initial ascent - is a renewed focus on technicality. The race to see who can be the fastest or most brutal had already long ago been subsumed by black metal, which frees death metal up to return to its role as thrash successor: riff-based, catchy, instrumentally competent. Revocation is all these things, which is why they're one of the more popular bands to emerge from death metal in the last few years.
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