Album Review: Whitechapel - Mark Of The Blade

The monstrous extreme metal sound was notably absent from Whitechapel's last record, but has returned in full form with Mark Of The Blade.

While not fully turning away from their evolution, the title track follows a thick almost groove metal riff and the band even let fly on some clean/dirty vocal mixes through Tremors. Mark Of The Blade drips with the guttural skills of Phil Bozeman alongside powerful blast beats and ferocious technical riffs, there is no denying however that this is as Whitechapel as they've been so far.