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DISENTOMB - Duration: 00:17:15
- Available from: 10/18/2024
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Unique Leader
Every five years – or so – Disentomb re-emerge from the shadows to reaffirm the caliber of an increasingly authoritative, effective and personal proposal, which continues to develop independently from what is popular in the contemporary death metal circuit .
Starting out as one of the many bands that grew up on bread and Unique Leader (the one from the past!) with the debut “Sunken Chambers of Nephilim”, from the second full-length “Misery” our band cleared an atmospheric-dissonant substrate that directed its steps towards the path traced by the monstrous Ulcerate, to then repeat and bring the aforementioned intuition to triumph with “The Decaying Light”, clear proof of how, even from such extremist bases, it was possible to undermine certainties and open up to new musical horizons, taking the best of their respective worlds and fusing it in a decidedly spontaneous and coherent way.
Today it is therefore the turn of “Nothing Above”, an EP of four songs for about twenty minutes which, if possible, turns out to be a further focus on this approach suspended between visionary digressions and unbridled brutality, crushing parentheses and dark arias, in which the guitar work of Jake Wilkes – the true driving force of the Brisbane group – raises the bar both in terms of elegance and power, riding the apocalyptic winds raised by a songwriting that draws heavily from the repertoire of the New Zealanders or others phenomena such as the Adversarials, as well as that of Disgorge and the first Decrept Birth.
Long riffs, which take all the time necessary to evolve and increase in intensity, are in short the foundations of an ingenious and calibrated sound, in which there is no desire to overdo it but rather to explore the range of sensations – domination, the unknown, terror – hinted at by the artwork.
A sinuous motion, an impetus that propagates from the recesses of the mind and body, capable one moment of offering poignant harmonizations, daughters of a masterpiece like “Shrines of Paralysis”, and the next of contracting into a series of destructive spasms during which frontman Jordan James stands like a guttural titan, supported by a severe but vital rhythm section.
A style which, all things considered, is neither clearly modern nor obstinately old school, and which is placed in a limbo where the desire to express oneself according to one's own language prevails, regardless of what the hype of the moment dictates.
The only regret, given the goodness of the whole and episodes of the caliber of “No God Unconquered” (with guest Jonny Davy of Job for a Cowboy), is that everything lasts so short, which is why we hope that a a more extensive work may already be in progress. A short return, but remarkable from every point of view.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM