Deepred - Prophetic Luster
2002 - Forensick Music
By Philip Whitehouse
Go to the Deepred web site
Go to the Forensick Music web site.
Now, this is more like it. After having just suffered the interminable sludge-dirge that was the truly abortive CAD - Deadnation, next in my reviewing schedule were Finnish death metallers Deepred. So, on went the album. And instantly I was hit by a sound as heavy as the mass of fallen masonry on photographed on the back of the album cover.
Deepred specialise in bottom-heavy, brutal but technical death metal assaults, and relish in a somewhat more contemporary feel than many of their rivals. Not for Deepred the constant gargling about 'Tearing The Entrails From A Virgin's Cunt', or whatever - Deepred prefer to batter you senseless with 'Hi-Speed Confusion' (a track which lives up admirably to its monicker) and the wash of cymbals that emanates from the speakers during the heaviest segments of 'Dismissed From Life'.
This isn't melodic death metal by any means, although there are enough little melodic touches to act as hooks to keep your attention - and if that doesn't work, the production lends the band a heavy-as-lead sound which keeps your attention by doing the sonic equivalent of sitting on your chest and not getting off until you've submitted to the furious riffage and blistering pace of the songs.
Proof positive that Americans haven't yet cornered the market on death metal.
8/10
2002 - Forensick Music
By Philip Whitehouse
Go to the Deepred web site
Go to the Forensick Music web site.
Now, this is more like it. After having just suffered the interminable sludge-dirge that was the truly abortive CAD - Deadnation, next in my reviewing schedule were Finnish death metallers Deepred. So, on went the album. And instantly I was hit by a sound as heavy as the mass of fallen masonry on photographed on the back of the album cover.
Deepred specialise in bottom-heavy, brutal but technical death metal assaults, and relish in a somewhat more contemporary feel than many of their rivals. Not for Deepred the constant gargling about 'Tearing The Entrails From A Virgin's Cunt', or whatever - Deepred prefer to batter you senseless with 'Hi-Speed Confusion' (a track which lives up admirably to its monicker) and the wash of cymbals that emanates from the speakers during the heaviest segments of 'Dismissed From Life'.
This isn't melodic death metal by any means, although there are enough little melodic touches to act as hooks to keep your attention - and if that doesn't work, the production lends the band a heavy-as-lead sound which keeps your attention by doing the sonic equivalent of sitting on your chest and not getting off until you've submitted to the furious riffage and blistering pace of the songs.
Proof positive that Americans haven't yet cornered the market on death metal.
8/10
