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Dismember - The God That Never Was
Release: 2006Label: Regain Records
By: Anders
Posted: Jun 29, 2006
Good old Dismember is back with their follow up to 2004's excellent "Where Ironcrosses Grow", an album that ignited my Dismember fever once again. I had of course high hopes for this new album of theirs, after the great last one, but I have to admit I was a tad disappointed the first few times I listened to "The God That Never Was", but that soon, for some reason I can't pinpoint, changed.
Dismember is Dismember and that has both been their force and weakness throughout the years. Though the band seemed energized 2 years ago, and today, they seem even more vital and alive. The new album is energetic and dynamic as hell, all 11 tracks flow by and demand a spin more, and soon one is addicted to and totally caught up in the world of Dismember. The first thing that springs to mind when listening to "The God That Never Was", is that it mostly is faster than the last few Dismember records, not that, that compares to hyperblast death metal from around the globe, the Swedes do still keep it within the mid-ranged paces. And the production of the album us clearer and not as muddy, as especially "Where Ironcrosses Grow", not that a muddy production puts me off, though the music on this new album do well with the more clean and dynamic production. Of course the music is still recorded analogy, no modern electronically stuff to intervene here, even though the band utilize a couple of samples here and there on the album.
The album offers classic Dismember death metal, heavy as fuck, crunchy riffs that catches the listener by the neck, and moves the head. The drumming is simple, yet hard-hitting and effective, Fred Estby is a godly drummer, when we talk this kind of death metal. The guitar play on the album has been taken to new levels, though the play contains more melodic leads than ever, and damn many of them rocks. The main riffs are catchy and contains the usual old school Swedish melodious tendencies, though here one extreme lead after the other blazes out of the speakers. And Dismember has found room to pay homage to some of their gods, take a pint of 'Transylvania', a pint of 'Phantom Of The Opera' and a tablespoon of "Killers", add a lot of distortion and some speed and you have the instrumental track 'Phantoms (Of The Oath)', Dismember's tribute to Iron Maiden, when they were best, an awesome track. Matti Kärkki, growler extraordinaire is on fire as well, as the rest of the band, and delivers a killer effort and evil as fuck vocals all the way through.
"The God That Never Was" is getting close to being the best Dismember album so far, though I still think "Like An Ever Flowing Stream" has a little lead. No matter what, with this album, Dismember proves that they are on of the darn best death metal bands around this very day today. This album puts all the good things about old school Swedish death metal, Dismember and mid-paced death metal on table for grabs, and if you don’t grab it, you can't call yourself a fan of death metal!
Dismember is Dismember and that has both been their force and weakness throughout the years. Though the band seemed energized 2 years ago, and today, they seem even more vital and alive. The new album is energetic and dynamic as hell, all 11 tracks flow by and demand a spin more, and soon one is addicted to and totally caught up in the world of Dismember. The first thing that springs to mind when listening to "The God That Never Was", is that it mostly is faster than the last few Dismember records, not that, that compares to hyperblast death metal from around the globe, the Swedes do still keep it within the mid-ranged paces. And the production of the album us clearer and not as muddy, as especially "Where Ironcrosses Grow", not that a muddy production puts me off, though the music on this new album do well with the more clean and dynamic production. Of course the music is still recorded analogy, no modern electronically stuff to intervene here, even though the band utilize a couple of samples here and there on the album.
The album offers classic Dismember death metal, heavy as fuck, crunchy riffs that catches the listener by the neck, and moves the head. The drumming is simple, yet hard-hitting and effective, Fred Estby is a godly drummer, when we talk this kind of death metal. The guitar play on the album has been taken to new levels, though the play contains more melodic leads than ever, and damn many of them rocks. The main riffs are catchy and contains the usual old school Swedish melodious tendencies, though here one extreme lead after the other blazes out of the speakers. And Dismember has found room to pay homage to some of their gods, take a pint of 'Transylvania', a pint of 'Phantom Of The Opera' and a tablespoon of "Killers", add a lot of distortion and some speed and you have the instrumental track 'Phantoms (Of The Oath)', Dismember's tribute to Iron Maiden, when they were best, an awesome track. Matti Kärkki, growler extraordinaire is on fire as well, as the rest of the band, and delivers a killer effort and evil as fuck vocals all the way through.
"The God That Never Was" is getting close to being the best Dismember album so far, though I still think "Like An Ever Flowing Stream" has a little lead. No matter what, with this album, Dismember proves that they are on of the darn best death metal bands around this very day today. This album puts all the good things about old school Swedish death metal, Dismember and mid-paced death metal on table for grabs, and if you don’t grab it, you can't call yourself a fan of death metal!
Rating: 9/10
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Review of "Where Ironcrosses Grow"
Distributed in Denmark and kindly supplied by Target
Review of "Where Ironcrosses Grow"
Distributed in Denmark and kindly supplied by Target
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