When, and I believe this to be true, when Costa Rica finds a good recording studio and good producers, our metal could become one of the top branded in Latin America; sadly, we are still looking for professionals that will take metal seriously enough as to invest on it! Cangrena suffered in 1999 of this specific “disease” terrible recording conditions and a sort of immature way of approaching some of their songs.

Demoniac Transition is a death/grind album that has very nice, very catchy and very fucking heavy songs, a decent vocal work, bad sound and sometimes an extremely tacky sense of judgment; most of the lyrics are just badly written, and is not totally Cangrena’s fault, English is obviously not their strongest language (off course if you read them, because been able to interpret what Mr. Corpse is singing about is pretty much impossible, I mean you don’t even notice when he is singing in Spanish!).

You can perceived this “tackiness” in a song like “Unnatural Penetration” a track that does a great thing by mixing deep growls, with that sort of “pig scream” that makes grindcore so aggressive and interesting, but suddenly gets totally destroyed by a segment of a women that appears to be in the middle of a nice and hot masturbation session, some bands can make those inclusions work, but not Cangrena that tiny, miniscule inclusion gets your mind out of the song and into a sort of “what the fuck just happened?” sort of mood. (I strongly support female masturbation by the way!)

Cangrena has a very obvious Cannibal Corpse influence running through out the album; not the sort of influence that makes a band sound exactly like another one, but the kind that sits on the background and gets develop and ends up becoming part of the very authentic sound emanating from the band.

To rap it up… very good death metal written here, too bad the sound is just crap, the lyrics are extremely childish, and some inclusions are just weird and totally out of place.