Antidemon

Item: Demonocídio
Author: sesspool

Demonocídio

(1999)

Reviewed by sesspool

Discogs YouTube

Label independentDead Zine1999

black metal death metal grindcore

This Brazilian death metal band takes you back to the roots of modern death metal and even included some tracks taking you all the way back to original death metal in its true punky form. The first thing to note in this album is the way the music is mixed... don't worry, that emotional and dark intro won't last long and you can get to your mediocre death metal in a moment. All right, the first actual song starts off with some of the worst crust death I've heard... and moves into the actual song ... while it's intentional... it's likely to turn many people off just by the first guitar riff being crusty and not crunchy. If you get past that first poor mixing job you're greeted with some fairly decent early 90's death metal. The first thing I began to notice was that the drums sounded heavy in parts only due to the fact that the toms were recorded to sound like the double bass and very little double bass was actually being played. There is a female drummer here but this is a day and age of "equal opportunity" so I'm not gonna give her props just for being female. sorry. She's ok, but that's about it. She can pull off some nice drum rolls and she's much better than a garage band death metal drummers but she can't keep up a blast beat and gets off time, she can't do double bass very long and she loves tom fills. In my opinion, she'd make a better metal core or hardcore drummer than a death metal drummer.

The general point of this album is to give the death metal crowd something they enjoy, and this album delivers that in full. As a few contacts I know said, "A full 27 tracks of death metal fury!" But I'm not gonna lie and leave it at that. Why? because it's not. For instance: songs 4 and 10 (usuario and massacre respectively) have the exact same intro with a couple alterations. I'm sure anyone who has been involved with music and written music has messed around with altering riffs to see if they sound better one way or another... well, here we have a variation of another riff... making up two songs. That is either condemnable or doesn't matter to you... but to me it's kind of a cheap way of putting out another track. The other problem I have with the above statement... first of all, the vocals are not fury-ridden... and they are kinda stupid sounding too... but that's not the point... the second thing is that the album is just a little over or under mediocre...I can't tell which. There are points that are cool... and points that just suck. If you can listen to 27 tracks of mediocre death metal with bad mixing and standard death metal musicianship... then be my guest and buy this album. But overall, unless you are fascinated with death metal or have a lot of money and just want to fill up more space in your cd collection (it's almost guaranteed that this album won't stay in the cd player for very long) then I would suggest something else.

Oh yeah, the lyrics are in spanish on the album...so you can't read along... but the english translations are there so you can know at least what they think they are trying to say... it seems to be... "bad satan", "bad drugs" and "bad alcohol". They may be much better in spanish than english translation. But since I don't know spanish, they are just half way ok death metal lyrics bashing satan drugs and alcoholism. Anyway, the album is an ok death metal album... but when you consider the vast leagues of really bad death metal... that's not saying much.

6/10