With almost 17 years of existence this Costarrican outfit created back in 2002 a great death metal album; powerful deep riffs and evil growls attack you from every direction the first time you listen to this record.

Let’s get the obvious out of the way; the sound is not very good, actually it ruins the great riffs in this album, a very sad thing because every song really has a good structure and some pretty good ideas (I guess that’s the disadvantage of not having a big record label behind you; but hey that’s the story with all Latin American underground acts).

The album starts with and intro that really doesn’t say much, but the title song Creature is a great one, a mid paced Florida old school metal track with some thrash like riffs placed in between that force you to keep listening to the rest of the album. The vocals are brutal and deadly and drums are simple and placed way to the back of everything else, another sad thing because the song could have been way better if the drums have had some more volume.

Warrior KING has some very interesting riffs, out of the ordinary for a death metal band, a curios song that deserves a closer look. Empress Witch has a very peculiar line of composition, having a lot of tempo changes and some melodic guitars repeating a monotonous riff between those tempo changes, just to speed things up and place some solos that make this song memorable.

Release Me is probably the best song of the album (at least to me it is), fast heavy and brutal, great song, death metal at its best; for some reason in this track the instruments sound better and are assembled in a great way complementing each other to discharge all of Mantra’s brutality.

Ojo de Dios sounds like a totally different album, and that’s because it’s in Spanish, not a bad track is just that it follows Release Me and that track makes this one sound rather dull.

Queen of Darkness is a simple mid tempo death metal track, with a quite nice vocal intervention and some fast guitars, while the closing and bonus track El Inferno de Apaican is an acoustic song with beautiful female vocals, really a great song maybe the track that will have you coming back for more.