The staff at Mighty Music seems as always to have a good nose for finding and releasing quality death metal. The third album Dying from Germany's Anasarca is no exception either. Dying is a fierce and relentlessly aggressive old school death metal release that hits you right in the face from the opener "Hasten Death" and in the next thirty-three minutes it just keeps pounding you into the dust until you lay crippled and dying.

Music-wise Anasarca sounds like a delicate blend between US styled and European old school death metal. A blend that of course is far from being original but Anasarca pulls this off in such a convincing way that you forget anything about originality or innovation. And it doesn't get any less impressive that Anasarca recorded Dying as a two piece. They have really managed to capture the fierceness, vitality and down right brutality that old school death metal is all about. None of the songs on Dying really stick out as being better or worse than the other. Anasarca simply has recorded ten diverse songs of equally high quality so there is really no excuse for not investing in this.

There are quite a unique story tied to the lyrics on Dying 'cause they are supposedly provided by terminal ill people who have written down their thoughts on dying. Anasarca has then rewritten them into actual lyrics, a little bizarre but still a pretty cool and unique idea.