Desecration - Pathway To Deviance
Copro Records - 2002
By Philip Whitehouse
Go to the Copro Records web site.
The brutality resurgance continues! South Wales death metal mob Desecration have stuck two fingers up to the authorities that ordered their debut album banned across Europe with their latest release, a return to the more brutal, gore-centric style of their past.
Beginning with the comically brutally-themed 'Cleaver, Saw and Butcher's Knife', Desecration lay out their blood-soaked stall from the beginning and continue much in the same vein, with furious tempos, guitars that slash at the listener like a murderer's knife, bass that resembles the spasming beats of a racing heart, and gloriously gravel-gargling vocals.
The occasional film sample adds to the atmosphere, which is the one prevalent in almost all gore-metal releases - not so much the spine-tingling intensity of The Shining or The Exorcist, more the rib-tickling gross-out extremity of The Evil Dead. Desecration don't make the mistake of taking themselves too seriously, and they allow the humour present in the subject matter to reveal itself rather than doing a Mortician and getting all straight-laced about it.
As you might be able to tell by the undercurrent of enthusiasm running throughout this review, I quite like this album. Brtual death metal with its tongue firmly in its cheek.
8/10
Copro Records - 2002
By Philip Whitehouse
Go to the Copro Records web site.
The brutality resurgance continues! South Wales death metal mob Desecration have stuck two fingers up to the authorities that ordered their debut album banned across Europe with their latest release, a return to the more brutal, gore-centric style of their past.
Beginning with the comically brutally-themed 'Cleaver, Saw and Butcher's Knife', Desecration lay out their blood-soaked stall from the beginning and continue much in the same vein, with furious tempos, guitars that slash at the listener like a murderer's knife, bass that resembles the spasming beats of a racing heart, and gloriously gravel-gargling vocals.
The occasional film sample adds to the atmosphere, which is the one prevalent in almost all gore-metal releases - not so much the spine-tingling intensity of The Shining or The Exorcist, more the rib-tickling gross-out extremity of The Evil Dead. Desecration don't make the mistake of taking themselves too seriously, and they allow the humour present in the subject matter to reveal itself rather than doing a Mortician and getting all straight-laced about it.
As you might be able to tell by the undercurrent of enthusiasm running throughout this review, I quite like this album. Brtual death metal with its tongue firmly in its cheek.
8/10
