Rogga Johansson and Paganizer have not made a habit out of surprising and they don’t on Carnage Junkie either. The music is unpretentious old school death metal and nothing more. You know what you get when you buy a Paganizer album and that’s the way I like it. The music is typical Swedish death metal as it were in the early days with Entombed and Dismember. However I do hear some references to Autopsy like on “Sweet Decay”.

There are no blastbeats on Carnage Junkie, but Rogga and Co do know how to speed things up a bit, but mostly the trio goes for the moderate. Above all Carnage Junkie is a fairly diverse effort, but it does get a little too trivial here and there. The music is heavy and the production reminds of the old Sunlight Studio recordings. Carnage Junkie is no masterpiece, but it’s an alright effort if you’re looking for a quick fix of old school Swedish death metal.