Diphteria - Diphteria
After a couple of albums this Czech Republic band has seen fit to sling out a short EP of material consisting of three new songs and one cover spanning less than 12 minutes. Formed about a decade ago the band formed by Daniel Weis was slow to get going but soon underway with live shows and a debut album out in 2008. Proclaimed as deathcore on my investigations into the band I partially agree with that tag but I think the band play predominantly brutal death metal with tenets of deathcore added for modernised flavour.
Kicking off with 'Public Enemy' the sombre sample piece gradually distorts to lead into the main riff and blasting fury of the song. The production is excellent, dense and for a change the drums sound fairly organic instead of the clicky type often preferred by this genre. A crunching double kick is practically bomb blasted at times with the snare blast. The tempo shifts are great, keeping the momentum fully focussed not allowing the listener's attention to wander off out of boredom whilst the splash of slam riffing is added intelligently, placed appropriately adding pulverising power to the song. 'Monsanto' is more of the same, but the song writing allows the riffing to stand out and it is here you can detect the core styling, with some clean vocal rants and shouted vocals too, but the music sticks with brutalising death metal mostly with a half decent breakdown riff injected about two thirds into the song which certainly worked for me.
The much slower 'Beautiful Lies' has an experimental touch initially before catapulting into a modernised death metal beast not too unlike Revocation with the style of guitar work. Snippets of deathcore pop up here as does some very melodic guitar work on the mid break. There are even some keyboard splashes added to this song before the EP closes with a surprising Nasum cover from that band's debut "Inhale / Exhale" called 'Time To Act'. Definitely performed as a death metal tune the original grind format has been garnished for a death metal palate but is equally as obliterating, much like this whole EP which is worthy of some attention before the end of the year.
Kicking off with 'Public Enemy' the sombre sample piece gradually distorts to lead into the main riff and blasting fury of the song. The production is excellent, dense and for a change the drums sound fairly organic instead of the clicky type often preferred by this genre. A crunching double kick is practically bomb blasted at times with the snare blast. The tempo shifts are great, keeping the momentum fully focussed not allowing the listener's attention to wander off out of boredom whilst the splash of slam riffing is added intelligently, placed appropriately adding pulverising power to the song. 'Monsanto' is more of the same, but the song writing allows the riffing to stand out and it is here you can detect the core styling, with some clean vocal rants and shouted vocals too, but the music sticks with brutalising death metal mostly with a half decent breakdown riff injected about two thirds into the song which certainly worked for me.
The much slower 'Beautiful Lies' has an experimental touch initially before catapulting into a modernised death metal beast not too unlike Revocation with the style of guitar work. Snippets of deathcore pop up here as does some very melodic guitar work on the mid break. There are even some keyboard splashes added to this song before the EP closes with a surprising Nasum cover from that band's debut "Inhale / Exhale" called 'Time To Act'. Definitely performed as a death metal tune the original grind format has been garnished for a death metal palate but is equally as obliterating, much like this whole EP which is worthy of some attention before the end of the year.
- Public Enemy
- Monsanto
- Beautiful Lies
- Time To Act (cover Nasum)
Label: http://www.neonarcis.com
Reviewer: twansibon
Dec 2, 2014
Dec 2, 2014
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