SOUL DEVOURED "Eleven deadly Sins"
You’ll see that a lot of zines out
there split up their review sections into two: regular and demo/unsigned.
We at Maelstrom think that’s pretty silly. Is this segregation there
to make us believe that demos are somehow inferior to label releases?
Ok, a lot of the time, they are. But sometimes, they’re not. Take Austrian
trio Soul Devoured as a perfect example. This album is self-produced and on
CDR, yes, but it blows away a whole lot of the promotional material we’ve
been getting lately from well known labels, particularly the German thrash
that’s coming out lately and touted as being so great. Well, the new
Destruction and Dew-Scented can’t hold a candle to this.
This deathy thrash band’s secret lies in having a forty minute treasure
trove of tasty riffs. They just keep coming. And it’s not only the riffs
themselves, but the excellent transitions between them that work so well.
Soul Devoured arrange their songs very tastefully, and the few intermissions
from thrashing rhythm guitar are seamless.
Stylistically, you can hear a lot of Kreator influence in the vocals and in
the general riffing. But there’s also a level of technicality that you’d
expect to hear in a Dying Fetus record. Above all, the lead work on Eleven
Deadly Sins is highly original. It is especially here that this album shines.
Leads, however well they are played on most of the metal bands’ albums
you can find in your local shop, start to sound very similar. But Soul Devoured
has got leads that instantly jump out at you as something unique.
And being a self-released album, Eleven Deadly Sins has its share of wackiness,
like some sort of female, spoken clip that sounds like an irate gnome beneath
the music on "Forces of Heresy." But there aren’t any shoddy
parts or screw ups to be found. The music is very clear and precise, and the
drum machine is superbly programmed. Sure, we all want a human drummer in
this sort of music, but in this case, it matters little. Get this demo. (9/10)
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