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Voices From The Dark Side - "Pathways To Catharsis": well crafted and enjoyable Death Metal |
 The German Death Metal underground seems to get more convoluted with each passing season, good bands struggling and / or falling to the way side, while others of ill favoring seem to thrive.
However, now a promising turn of events with that standard, as DEAD EMOTIONS bring before us today their third studio album “Pathways To Catharsis” and as it happens are making quite a lot of actual progress within the German underground at the same time!
DEAD EMOTIONS is from Southern Germany, Munich from what I am told, and is a five piece whose strength lay in numbers. As the complexity of the material, although not that extreme in proficiency ultimately is intricate enough that these five souls are required to pull off the more melodic of passages and dual rhythm structures that pervade throughout this CD, and not only in the live sense as is shown by these video clips (more on that below) but obviously in the studio as well. The only complaint I had about this disc was the fact there are no leads here. Mayhaps they could look into writing some for the next record or see about incorporating a third guitarist like MAIDEN has with Janick Gers? As I feel that a lead guitarist is the final piece this act needs to fill their fold and this void.
In total 11 songs of well crafted and enjoyable Death Metal are featured here on this disc, for those of you out there who are into bands like DESASTER, ARCH EMEMY, AMON AMARTH and similar acts than definitely be sure to check out DEAD EMOTIONS, they will not disappoint.
Wes Rhodes
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(Comment from Markus: Unluckily we are not sure what he meant with "no leads" - in fact there are solos and a leading melody guitar on 7 of the 11 tracks. We therefore got in touch with Wes and will keep this entry up to date accordingly.) |
