out Sept. 3: Deformatory - Canadian fast, brutal extreme

Deformatory

Inversion of the Unseen Horizon

3 September 2021

The beginnings of this Canadian duo go back to 2008. After figuring out some things, including a name change, they started pushing the boulder up the mountain, in 2011 with an EP, in 2013 with an album, another album in 2016, some singles in 2018, a split in 2019 and now the new album. The vocals are uniformly, consistently a low, gruff, unintelligible growl throughout the entire recording. The drumming is comprised of frenetic, super-duper fast blasting, with some segments of non-blasting, but blasting is abundant. The guitars, it should be mentioned, are not jazz-like nor experimental, which makes the music much more comprehensible to the audience. The wrist-breaking guitar work can be thrashy, tremolo, death metal, and more, all done with a brutal contemporary death metal production, and it also played skillfully, and very fast, overall. This is fast brutal death, but the most important part is that it is understandable quickly to the genre’s audiences. The one-dimensional growling may work against them with fans that want more variety, screams or craziness. Sometimes the bass guitar is audible, but for the most part it is not necessarily so, and it is part of the frenzied heaviness. The drum sound seems normal in this genre, which means sampled/replaced drumming. The album could entertain the devoted fan of contemporary brutal or tech-death, while keeping in mind that this is not jazz/abrupt metal, just fast, growling, and headbanging.

Inversion of the Unseen Horizon by DEFORMATORY

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