Disbelief - Heal
These Germans released their first demo in 1992, 2010 brings a new album and a search for a new guitarist. The album itself is your pretty standard modern death metal, with bits and pieces borrowed from various influences. Opening track ‘The Eyes of Horror’ certainly stirs the senses, booming bass and god damn heavy vocals, and yes it’s a pleasing tune, the groove helps just that little bit too. Looking at the 8-tracks on offer, one is an older song re-recorded (‘Shine’), unfortunately re-recording quite like a metal core number mixed with the Deftones and Neurosis, and 3 cover versions. Certainly the most outstanding and remarkable of the covers is ‘Welcome Home’ (originally by King Diamond and from the album ‘Them’). I always find it interesting to hear other artist’s interpretation of good tunes, and hearing this rabid number without the falsetto vocals of Kim is nice and refreshing. Leaving only 4 songs to temp the pallet, stand out numbers include ‘Isolation’ and the varied but wondrous ‘Last Force: Attack!’. A modern tune, but still nice elements of progressive death mixed in for good measure. Downtrodden sludge comes with ‘Certainty of Reality’, there is a fine line between that genre and really modern stuff, but you kind of get the picture. I have to say, I am certainly looking forward to seeing these guys live this summer, and I think the artwork is also something pretty cool although I am not seeing the link with the album title and the songs themselves.
Disbelief are a good band, whom are full of ideas and variation, my mission is to find and go through the bands back catalogue to make final judgement. A solid release, even if the original songs on offer are in limited supply.
Disbelief are a good band, whom are full of ideas and variation, my mission is to find and go through the bands back catalogue to make final judgement. A solid release, even if the original songs on offer are in limited supply.
1. The Eyes of Horror
2. Isolation
3. The Last Force: Attack!
4. Certainty of Reality
5. Love Like Blood (cover Killing Joke)
6. Red Sharks (cover Crimson Glory)
7. Welcome Home (cover King Diamond)
8. Shine (Remake)
Massacre Records
Reviewer: twansibon
Aug 17, 2010
Aug 17, 2010
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