Beastly new Arsis record is out \m/

Is it really a straight up death metal record? I always penned Arsis more as melodic death metal on crack.

I wouldn't call it straight up death metal, more like melodic death metal, but I do get Egan's point.

I really think that judging by what we've heard about the Kemper, I'd say it has nothing to do with the reason you dislike the tone, it's probably just the tone itself you don't like, not the kemper's "contribution" to it.
 
Is it really a straight up death metal record? I always penned Arsis more as melodic death metal on crack.

I wasn't meaning in terms of sub-sub-sub-genre but rather the approach to writing and production. It sounds like dudes shredding and not a team of editors and uncredited keyboard players.
So "straight-up" as in "straight-up no bullshit heavy fucking metal." I'll let the kids on metalsucks sort out the sub-genre.