Release Date June 12th, 2026
Format CD/Cassette
Genre Death Metal
Origin Italy
Tombal were formed in late 2025 and come from the rotten side of death metal, with their sound built around the savage HM-2 guitar attack and the old Swedish death metal disease. The band works as a power trio, with Luigi Cara handling guitars and vocals, Massimiliano Falchi on bass, and Luca Barone on drums. Their first public strike, "Grave Of The Damned", arrives through Blood Harvest Records on CD, with Unholy Domains taking care of the cassette version.
Tombal doesn’t waste time and they go straight into rotten Swedish death metal worship, full of chainsaw guitar tone, fast charges, rotten grooves, and riffs that drag the listener into an open grave. The HM-2 influence is obvious, of course, though the band uses it with guts. The EP has that early ’90s death metal sickness all over it. The guitars grind with nasty force, the bass adds a brutal underground pulse, and the drums sound like a machine gun buried in cemetery dirt. There is speed, there is crushing tempo, and there is a small dose of evil melody that gives the songs more character without making them softer. Tombal sound hungry, violent, and focused, with no plastic studio shine ruining the rotten atmosphere.
The EP comes in, wrecks the place, and leaves before the fire dies. This is graveyard death metal with a chainsaw engine, made for people who want riffs, filth, and violence first. For a debut EP, Tombal arrives with more power than many full-length releases in the same style. “Grave Of The Damned” is not perfect, since the band can still build a more personal identity on the next release, though this is already a damn strong opening strike. As a first public offering, it has the smell, the sound, and the attitude. Tombal has stepped out of the grave swinging.
|8.3
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