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User Review @ Encyclopaedia Metallum: This is the leading Blackened Death Metal band of the country |
 Ladies and Gentlemen, since 3 days I'm in the possession of this album now. Since three days it's the only music I listen to, and overall one could say, it's the best death metal effort Germany had within the last years.
What do we have here? An straightforward death metal, but what does that say? Nothing so far. Dead Emotions isn't one of that comrades of the genre that just want to make some noise, but fill their music with emotions and bring them with intelligent songwriting to the so called "next level". The overall feeling is amazing, brutal, yet emotional and atmospheric. As the feeling of the songs differs pretty much, I think I'll describe a few songs nearer, and start with the intro. You are introduced into this album with some noise, unsettling, dark, evil, atmospheric. Distorted voices souring around, on a musical ground of constant fizzling, preparing you for the first track, which starts of as a brutal death metal orgy, thrashing the teeth out of your face. The drumming seems like the basic for the music, the guitars are built above with melodic riffing. With the breakdown everything changed, and you are put infront of an rather distorted guitar thing, still based on an drumming line that's going straight and fast deeper into the song's substance. The vocals do their thing to it, the deep growls are placed most of the time quite perfect to the rhythm. Sometimes some rather black metal shrieks come in and fill the atmosphere. Till now it's an overall quite pure death metal song, but what starts now is raising the iced plains of north upon you and driving you into another reality! You can't save yourself of a goose skin when the song is felt to be more slow suddenly by some undefinable background sound, and a male chant is crushing in. You feel the ice coming over your shoulders, the above mentioned rare black metal shrieks complete the atmosphere throughout the enchanting voices and soon the song has come to an end... An scaring, unrelenting, unsettling, devastating, depressed end.
The next three songs follow a quite equal pattern. One main riff, cold and hard, with an distorted hook at the end, and one strangely melodic riff. The drums again give the basic idea of the songs and pull you straight through the song, always hard and aggressive but never loose any of their summoning enchanting way of interpretation. The growls drive you deeper into the music and the bass is giving the whole music some more depth into which you dive during the listening experience. The overall feeling is irritating, hard, sometimes groovy, sometimes just brutal, sometimes leaving you on some melody line on which you are surfing away. The big minus is, that you really think you've heard most of the music in the song before just, but luckily the pattern saves you from becoming bored. The atmosphere is kept up and driving you deeper into the music, out of this reality on the pathways to catharsis.
Disdained starts of with some low background chants under a quite slow drumming line. Black metal shrieks again are filling the atmosphere up, till the song really starts off with the guitar line, pretty much like the songs before. Still the overall feeling of this song stay much slower than those before, when it starts to feel faster, it's slowed down by some hook at the end of the riff. The bass is really felt here, but somehow the song doesn't get my attention that much as on the concert. Yes, it's the perfect stage song to make masses bang their heads, but on CD it just hasn't the same effect as on stage. It's a pretty cool song, still, but with less atmosphere.
The rest of the songs are straight forward killers, brutal, showing no mercy, and giving you the certain feeling only death metal can give, but wait... what's that? After an short, atmospheric interlude starts...
Song 11, at the end of time, my favorite of the whole release, is overall the fusion of everything positive described above. Yes, damned, this is what atmospheric death metal should sound like! Take death metal parts of "The Crown" and mix them with some Limbonic Art atmosphere, you'll have what this song is. Something new, evolved, emotional, yet brutal, stemming from the old roots of death metal.
Song recommendation: at the end of time
Anyone who has the chance to see them live, go and visit the concert, it's the best you can do! This is the leading Blackened Death Metal band of the country. I recommend this band to anyone who isn't only in endless fast and stupid death metal, but also like some progressive elements and all those guys out there who like atmospheric music.
Written by DeadJo on November 2nd, 2007
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