Entry 180 - Defacement - Deviant

 

Well I'm embarrassed. I've been playing this record at 33 rpm all day. I was enjoying a solid slab of truly horrifying cavernous death metal. The band wasn't the fastest that I had ever heard but man the guitar tone and atmosphere were insanely deep and rich.

I eventually realized that things sounded just a little too slow, the vocals were a little too drawn out and the guitar was just too sludgy. I swapped it to 45 rpm and I had a completely new album on my hands.

This stuff is punchy, in your face and intense. The songs still have that beast dwelling in the depths of the earth feel to them. Now instead of a slow moving monstrosity, the music has morphed into a ravenous beast that is craving blood.

The riffs blur together in the best way possible. Its hard to tell where one riff ends and the next begins. It's a flurry of notes and chords.

Even at 45 rpm this is dripping in atmosphere. The album just does not let up, the guitars create a wall of noise effect that leads to a dense and thick atmosphere. Full on paranoia instead of dread.

Defacement's debut album is less than 30 minutes long. With music this intense anything longer would probably overstay its welcome. I would rather be wanting more than thinking this has gone on too long. Deviant certainly fits firmly into the wanting more category.