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Artist: Demiurg |
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Demiurg is the latest band to feature the talents of Swedish Death Metal artist and main man in both Paganizer and Ribspreader, Rogga Johansson. Partnering him on this latest release are the very capable talents of This Haven bassist Johan Berglund and Edge of Sanity’s Dan Swano, with Swano also producing the album. The album itself takes the old school death metal sound and turns it on its head by bringing in so many different elements, that to class it as simply Death Metal takes away the singularity and inventiveness of the whole Demiurg sound. The album contains all the intensity of a typical Death Metal release, but it has that extra something that makes it stand apart from the others. The album opens up with ‘The Dreams Without End’ and instantly the brutal force that is Johansson’s vocals tears into your very demeanour, but it’s the musicianship on the track and the entire album that is stunning, as the band don’t go all out Death Metal on the album. Yes it is DM, but this is Metal that you can listen to without reaching for the off button. The brutal aspects of the album are driven apart by the sheer majesty of the music behind the vocals. So many bands in the genre go all out to shock and awe with their sound that the musicianship is lost in a void of thumping drums and shredding guitars, that it all becomes, a mixture of noises that simply drives me away from the genre at times. But with this album you can actually pick out intricate chord and tempo changes within the songs Highlights of the album for me are the speed fest that is ‘City of IB’ that brings some melodic metal tones to the album, whilst still retaining those brutal elements that the genre demands. Next is the guitar ridden ferocity of ‘Monolithany’ which brings in elements of Celtic Frost with the more modern metal era. 'Monolithany II' carries on the intensity of believe where 'Monolithany' left off, but bringing in some fantastic guitar work courteous of Johansson. The
old school Death Metal element isn’t totally forgotten on the album as
the band bring it on with ‘The Doom That Came To…’ and finally the
icing on the cake, be it black icing, is the instrumental ‘Sarnath’,
a slow building mood ridden metal epilogue that is for me the stand out
track on the album. As one not to into the whole Death Metal
genre, this track is just something else. |
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