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DEMONIZED is actually the band where Antimo plays, in a way even more ferocious than

DOMAIN, or better yet more basic and obsessive, in a school which

would fit BEHERIT or early IMMORTAL as well. The sound in this

second half of the split is a bit more fuzzy but it helps the

music come out even more brutal and elementalistic in straight

to the core aggression. Like the band reviewed above, the music

substantially could take place between south American Death Metal

bands such as ABHORRENCE, OPHIOLATRY or ANCESTRAL MALEDICTION,

with an impressive charge of cruelty yet with some blackish backbone,

as the songs have a higher tune and a remotely melodic vibe above

the maelstrom of isntruments. The vocals are 90% of the time on

a high pitched tune, kinda witch shrieks, that’s one more reason

why see the band as well in the Black metal realm as in the Death

dungeons of pain, and solos are abundant and helps the music get

more varied than DOMAIN, but, my humble opinion, I prefere DOMAIN

better. Last time we talked we had half a deal to release this

split for Europe but like it had happened several years ago with

DISGORGE, Antimo answers 3 or 4 e-mails and then falls in slumber.

Hope he could contact me as soon as possible becouse this stuff

is superlative…

1 - Intro 2 - Supreme Conquest 3 - The Cursed 4 - War of Dominion

When Antimo of DISGORGE

handed me this CD I was damn curious to hear how one that plays

in a band like DISGORGE could handle a side project and the very

second I heard the first song I was chilled. The music here is

incredible, friends of mine who listened to the split in different

times called me at the phone to tell me how they all were surprised

by these two bands… the drumming style is in the vein of DISGORGE

if we can call it that way since they’re so fast and tight, and

on these speed, differences become more blurred. Lyrically the

band reminds me of something halfway between BLASPHEMY, KRISIUN,

MORBID ANGEL, BEHERIT and ANGELCORPSE, with texts crammed with

demonic invocations, enraptured visions of apocalyptic clashes

between demons and sodomitic orgies of blood. The compressiion

and intesity of the music is incredible, followed up by blasts

a la REBAELLIUN yet with some devilish backing vocals, and little

or no space for breath between one song and the other. The third

song have even some early DEICIDE-like satanic sound in the guitars,

you know, the kind of loose play filled whith whistles and abrupt

stops. Sensational.

1 - Intro 2 - Powerlust 3 - Sadistic 4 - LSD 5 - All rise all fall 6 - Break the borders 7 - You're dead 8 - Zero turns to one 9 - Intelligent bastards 10 - Everything fix 11 - Condemned 12 - Violence 13 - Emotional plug 14 - Outro

This is a band that definitely surprised me out of the blue. Especially considering that it’s self-produced, the CD is a fucking real

blast in the skull, with an amazing package and a production you

hear only once every few years. Professionally they’re all amazing

players, and use their top notch skill to create real damn top

notch quality songs. The sound in this disc is so crisp, so clean

it could easily be a Floridian Death Metal band right out of the

Morrisounds, the way strings and drum pair thru hyperblasting

speeds remind me only DIABOLIC (fuck, listen to the MP3 and see

if I’m boasting too much), or the best MALEVOLENT CREATION. or

better yet MORBIFIX. The only things not entirely Hyperblasting

Death/Thrash are the vocals who give the music a modern, post

core touch, kinda KONKHRA, the SEPULTURA of a few years ago, for

instance, or dunno, put here the name of any latest Diehard release.

When one gets this impressed one can’t but wonder how long these

guys have been playing or why they have not a contract yet, this

stuff is unbelievably high level and I can’t stop to say, damn

professional. What strays a bit from my views is the modern, industrial-metal

like sound and some of those overused FEAR FACTORY sonorities,

especially evident in the fourth song, when the vocals get filtered…

it’s a very unperedictable pairing, drummer of almost robotic

precision like this and death metal grunts, with this compact,

tight sound the drumming seems much more like a drum-machine than

a human and when the music gets real techno/trance with synth

beats… it gets a bit aehm… out of my range. But I am not the

one whining over modernity or electronic music at all. If it’s

used to symbolize the dehumanization of our society and so on,

it does its job the right way in my opinion. This said, the band

IS Death and Tharsh Metal, but don’t think they’re just another

FEAR FACTORY clone. I can only wonder what they could have done

if they kept it 100% Death Metal…

1- Deriding His Creation 2 - Mentally Deprived 3 - Realization of Betrayal 4 - Induced Deception

DEPRECATED from San Diego

has been one of the last bands released and promoted from our

countrymates of sadly departed Heafucker records. Far from their

Grind Core habits, DEPRECATED play superior, steel reinforced

guttural Brutal Death Metal of the finest American sort, the sort

which doesn’t just hip-hops and pound boringly for hours. The

sheer intensity and crushing heaviness of the music can be deservingly

be paierd with that of bands such as SKINLESS or DISGORGE, to

remain in the same city, anyway I think I prefere DEPRECATED better

than DISGORGE. Not only the sound of this CD is among the most

brilliant ones I have heard for the genre, very very crystalline

without being too synthetical, it is just plain BROOTAL with capital

letters. This is the kind of sheer brutality most American bands

fails to reach… the vocals are the lower than low kind, and

get the deserved relief from the whole mush, drums blasts are

clear cut, the sound of the cymbals so crisp… really amazing

production… all in all, a great mind blowing Death Metal disc

which has the only weak spot of being too short. Lyrically their

apocalyptic yet filthy urban style of writing remind me much of

SUFFOCATION, good shit to bring at parties ahr ahr.

1- Angel Heart 2 - House of Ambience 3 - Repulsive Emission 4 - Unholy 
            5 - Dream Deceiver 6 - I or the Needle 7 - Crimson Remains 8 - Shifting 
            Sands 9 - Dying Angels 10 - Spiritual Suicide

DEADHEAD is a good Thrash/Death Metal band from Holland which play good, sincere music the like it was played when Death was at the beginning, the differneces with thash metal were more blurred, and the overall scene more sincere. I do rarely dig thrash/death metal, especially becouse it usually means “weak Death Metal” in modern termns ah ah.. Actually I haven’t heard neither the newest or the first albums (this is the second one, in fact), but this is pretty much stuff I used to tape trade when I first got into the genre, you can take the best of old MORGOTH as a comparison of Death of good quality. This is by no means the same as, say NEMBRIONIC, which while OK, desn’t stir much the beast in me eheh, it’s more of old DEATH, PROTECTOR, SADUS. DISINCARNATE or the more recent DEMENTED TED, with the clear cut guitars, throaty yet comprehensible vocals, cryptic lyrics and stuff. Good shit all in all although more for thrashers then grinders. Actually this is what other bands like MOSHQUITO prethend to play with no success.