Devil In You - Show Your Hate

With my point out of the way, I'll mention that I gave this album three listens. On first listen, I thought the entire album was a load of diabolical trash. Literally nothing made me want to bop my head, or boast the band out to some buddies. After a gorgeous nights sleep, I decided to give the album another spin. After my third hearing, I realised there are some really interesting highlights worth mentioning during this review. Firstly, I dig the whole slow process of the guitars, the sludge-like riffs really do sound terrific once you get your head around the album's shitty  production quality. Vocals are really low, almost gurgled - and could actually be used in a black metal band. Haunting tempos and a darkened atmospheric nightmare-ish setting begins to set the album's territory mark, and eventually this grows on the listener. If I had to pick a favourite among them, 'King Of Decay' is one of the few tracks that allows a more modern experienced feel to it, yet it blatantly still lies within the oldschool boundaries. 

Whilst "Show Your Hate" isn't something I'd personally want in my CD collection, I can certainly accept the fact there might be some people out there that would. I won't go to show my hate on the album since I'll admit I'm new to the whole oldschool following, instead the album has opened my views on the genre, and I promise to become more forgiving on the next listen of bands that follow in Devil In You's footsteps.