review: Féleth

Féleth

Depravity

DeadPop Records

22 May 2020

Even though the official propaganda hype for this Norwegian deathcore band goes overboard (more on that in a minute), and despite the fact that the album sounds like the work of a young band (perhaps because it is the work of a young band!), their enthusiasm and their drive is undeniable, contagious even. They are a deathcore band that is pointing in some contemporary death metal directions. The official propaganda is too exaggerated. The potential customer is led to believe that things will go from death to jazz, from ambient to thrash, from death metal to rock, but they do not (yet?) have the skills to do all those things, although one can tell that there are brief hints at other things, like some black metal flashes here and there, for instance. However, do not expect black metal, jazz, ambient or rock, expect young, heavy deathcore primed for the mosh pit, and young U.S. audiences into the sounds of deathcore and death metal may find the band to be a gem.