Negative-Existence - DEMIGOD "Let Chaos Prevail" CD

DEMIGOD "Let Chaos Prevail" CD
[XM049CD]

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Artist: DEMIGOD

Title: Let Chaos Prevail

Format: CD

Country: Finland

Genre: Death Metal

Record Label: Xtreem Music

Long awaited 3rd album of finnish Death Metal legends!! Intense, crushing & technical Death with Thrash hints of the highest quality, setting new standards with their unique & original vision, this album will become an instant classic. A must have!!

Tracklisting:

1. Not Dead Enough 03:55
2. Let Chaos Prevail 03:44
3. Dark Turns Black 05:17
4. Cult of Sickness 03:57
5. God Said Suffer 04:22
6. To See the Last One Die 03:38
7. Self-Caged 03:16
8. End of Evolution 04:36
9. The Uncrowned 03:37
10. Baptized In Enmity 04:03
Total playing time 40:25

Sounds:

Review:

Demigod - Let Chaos Prevail
(Album of the Week 1-30-2-6-2008)

Ah yes, Demigod. For me these Finish fiends are too often an unheralded band whose hallmark album, ‘Slumber Of Sullen Eyes,’ is a rhythmic bastard with doomy lurches swathed adroitly against melody, and a dynamic trashy drumming style. Then Demigod faded away for 10 years, although a couple of the members went on to form Adramelech. In 2002, Demigod released ‘Shadow Mechanics,’ that heard them more than ever as a guitar driven band with splendid leads, acoustic interludes, a ballad, and a song with a mixture of prototypical death grunts set against clean vocals washed over by mid tempo riffage. Overall the effort on ‘Shadow Mechanics’ was solid and after 10 years it didn’t surprise me to hear the band push the Death Metal template, but I also had had a decade of hearing ‘Slumber Of Sullen Eyes’ with prior demos to the point that I couldn’t see past my own close mindedness enough to enjoy ‘Shadow Mechanics.’ Then in 2007 Demigod released ‘Let Chaos Prevail’ an album that seems to interweave the best of ‘Slumber of Sullen Eyes’ with ‘Shadow Mechanics.’

The morbidity oozing like condensation on a cool glass plagued by an Alabama summer is really the primary difference between what was heard on ‘Slumber Of Sullen Eyes’ and ‘Let Chaos Prevail.’ Yes, moments of melody are more prevalent and the overall robust sound of the instruments is polished, but the recording retains a hammering heaviness that effectively displaces the gloomy atmosphere heard either on Demigod’s debut, or classic early demos. By further comparison ‘Let Chaos Prevail’ has no clean vocals, no acoustic guitar, and no ballads like its predecessor, ‘Shadow Mechanics.’ Instead listeners are treated to a band of professionals seamlessly weaving beautiful melodies with crunching Death Metal.

Powerful vocals disparage tuneful parts in compositions, but blistering riffage is always heaped in gigantic mouthwatering scoops with slicing harmony leads working beneath to create angst. Solos are fit into songs with precision and soaring tension. Sometimes the guitars do a bit too much chugging in patented stop start riffing, but overall the guitar is played skillfully in each song with double tracking adding a devilish layer of dynamism to the riffage. Even tracks like "The Uncrowned" manage to be seductively progressive via a pedal induced bit of echoing guitar looping that gives the tune a mystical aura. Bass is intoxicating in thick layers that convey the weight of Metal with the passion of 4-string rhythm. Double bass meshes perfectly with the various guitar notes, fills are rotund, and cymbals keep a sense of high speed that works brilliantly against some of the mid tempos.

‘Let Chaos Prevail’ is an album showcasing Demigod as expert musicians that know how to craft songs with just the right amount of crunch and melody. While the production is a bit too polished for my taste, it does prove Demigod for being a mistake free paradigm for high quality Death Metal with a twinge of mainstream sensibility that won’t prevent purists from headbanging. Demigod will never again be the morbid doom riddled monster heard back in 1992, but ‘Let Chaos Prevail’ is an LP that demonstrates their musical versatility and relevance in the 21st century.

By Mike Lidia

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 26 May, 2008.

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