By: Anders

Posted: Jan 12, 2006

This is this Finnish band's debut release, the mini-CD "Gamashinoch" that has been re-released, it is the new and upcoming American label Hammermill Records that is behind the re-release of Death Du Jour's self-released 2003 title. It is cool to have this album back on the streets, it got rave reviews back when it was released, and after a lot of listens to the album, I understand why.

The band delivers hard-boiled death metal with a great deal of technical shenanigans and some grindcore elements. The music is mostly fast and blasting, the drums goes berserk, the guitar spews forth wicked disharmonic riffs, almost going backwards, compared to the pace the drum keeps, once in a while. The music is noisy, dark and slightly chaotic, I guess some easily could get lost on the dark and relentless world of Death Du Jour. Others who are into this violent and blasting style of death metal will enjoy it a lot. The grinding guitars, together with the blasting drums, the wicked breaks, the great technical details and the insane vocals, make a good album. The vocal on this album is sick, a guttural to high frustrated growl, processed through a good slab reverb to add a truly sick and twisted aura to it, and that has so to say worked. The vocal adds the last bit to the atmosphere and makes it all sicker, eerier and more twisted.

A good death metal basher, and even though we only are treated 4 tracks on this album, it is worth the money, one of the bands of the future I reckon. The band released their full length debut album "Fragments Of Perdition" on Golden Lake Productions back in 2004, and there has been a bit quiet around the band since then, though I suspect some more ravage and mayhem from these Finnish madmen soon. Go and check this fucker out, you'll not regret it, but might end up in a padded cell at the local metal institution.

Rating: 7½/10

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