The first two things I noticed about this cd are that all the lyrics are in Portuguese and they have a female drummer.
First the lyrics. Not since Horde have I heard an album this focused on evil being bad. As the band name and album title go (I'm assuming Demonocido translates roughly into "killing demons" or some such), so goes the entire album. Antidemon massacres Satan, hate, and violence, they cast out demons (with amazing efficiency, I might add), and flat out declare war on hell. How could anybody mistake lyrics like "Demonios atados, impedidos de agir! O seu tempo terminou, pelo sangue de Jesus! Jesus Cristo!"? Or, just in case the minions of evil aren't multilingual, they translate to English "Demons are in chains, unable of acting. Their time has finished by Jesus blood. Jesus Christ!" Anyway, the Portuguese vocals actually do seem to have a cool flow to them that I don't hear in other bands, whether it's the language or the vocalist's phrasing could probably be debated.
As for the drummer, her name's Elke, and she plays the drums. They don't stand out (except for her being a female and all), but they're ok.
Anyway, that leaves the music as the thing that didn't stand out here. Antidemon can churn out a cool slow groove when they want to, but most of this cd sounds to me like a death band covering Minor Threat songs. Power chords on top of power chords on top of truly punk-esque riffing. "Massacre" particularly reminds me of Sepultura's "Policia", if you're familiar with that. What isn't the death-punk is mostly palm muted E-string stuff that could be castoffs from Chaos A.D. era Sepultura stuff. Regardless, the punkish leanings do give the album a unique "fun-death!" feel that's kind of cool, but grows weary well before I reach track 27.
7/10
Other coverage for this album
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