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- Band:
Devine Defilement - Duration: 00:42:31
- Available since: 09/05/2025
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Time to Kill Records
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Not only Black Metal lives the impervious and majestic Icelandic territory. Because if it is true that the relevance and personality of names such as MisþYrming, Sinmara, Svartidauði or – in more recent times – Vafurlogi cannot be questioned, polarizing the bulk of the attention of the public and criticism, the Scandinavian nation, over the years, has shown that it also knows how to move among the folds of extreme genres that have little or nothing to be shared Fiordi, geyser and lava of its morphology, bringing home anything but fortunate or improvised results.
In this regard, we could mention the Beneaths, valid Unique leaders of the period of the period 2008-2012, the cult of lilith, responsible with their “mara” debut of a curious death-black/folk/prog hybrid, the techno-death metaller ophidian i and-arriving at the group treated here-the devine defecto, sextet of Reykjavík author of a very ignoring Death Metal smeared with Slam and Hardcore.
A formation that, now intercepted by our local time to Kill, has already been the protagonist of two EPs and four full-lengths since 2016, in the sign of a creative flow as impetuous as (fortunately) accompanied by the right dose of panache and inventiveness. A proposal from the obstinately barbaric and percussive indole, within which the lesson of the masters DespiSed Icon and Dying Fetus, as well as that of younger and arrembanti realities (ACRANIUS, INGESTED, Vulvodynia, etc.), knows how to be conveyed in functional and captivating songs, circumventing the obstacle (typical of the vein) of the expressive and structural flatness.
While adhering in full to certain aesthetic canons, ours look well to propose a cluster of sketchy riffs and asphyxiated breakdown, building an ambitious tracklist in his way in melting crushed cadences, more agile rhythms and atmospheric excerpts (obtained thanks to some sample and synth), as well as able to overcome the initial expectations of longevity.
Merit above all of a guitar work which, although it cannot be defined in the strict sense, tries to constantly vary its offer within the songs, between very heavy assaults and thinly technical and melodic digressions to betray a metalcore background, to which are then accompanied by an equally brisk rhythmic section and a vocal test – by two frontman, which it is precisely recalls the seting of the authors. of “The ills of modern man” – never too excessive or guttural.
The result is an album yes peasant and repugnant (just look at the cover), but built with a certain dose of skill, in which the tension grows in an organic way and then explode in powerful slowdowns and of complete meaning.
For these reasons, “ruthless” can be seen as a work higher than (too much) contemporary death; A descent into the most foul violence that – in the wake of episodes such as “Excred Entity”, “Curbstomp the Predator”, “Draco Dominus” and “Beyond the Veil of Death” – entertains without expanding into the spaceing.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
