And So It Came To Pass
Dyscarnate
Between brutality and disgust, between the sorrow and the disappointment of mankind that have come to be since societies began to develop, stands the British modern Death Metal onslaught of DYSCARNATE. Though not the first that indulge ideas against man's acts against his own kind and his surroundings, the band's new album, "And So It Came To Pass", released via Siege Of Amida Records, expresses their sheer intense anger adjacent to something that will not possibly change in the future. It might even get worse but that is the nature of things so I was told. They probably think the same thing. So what is left, besides wondering what will be and how we are destroying ourselves even further, there is always the music, especially the extreme kind that will keep us surging through our thoughts.
For those who expected something more spiritual, as we are talking about deep thoughts about self-destruction, be sure to put your helmet on because this ride will unleash a hell load of fists to the face. DYSCARNATE bring it on brutally without showing mercy to their audience, and I am sure their close circa likes to get pounded. In their album the large sum of pounding and beating came from what seemed to me as unending triggers and base drum attacks, which sometimes even clouded the rest of the channels when played straight in unrelenting sweeping speed. The second thing that blasted with full gain and crude bass support was the rhythm section of the string section. Well, there wasn't any lead section at all which was electric besides the soaring growls of both guitarist and bass player. Just an assumption but I think that they worked the growl vocals between them, one low grunts and one high screamo type groans. On the whole, DYSCARNATE blast with tough Death Metal attacks, yet since there wasn't even a shred of melody, and although I am a sick bastard for guitar riffs, everything came back the same almost song after songs, no solos or any peak moments, and what I was left with were interminable riffing and hammering drumming. Sometimes even the vocals stopped interest me.
With "In the Face of Armageddon", "Engraving Ecstasy", "Kingdom of the Blind" I saw that DYSCARNATEare heading somewhere with their music. They posses some great groove in these songs and catchy like riffing, yet I think with a little bit of spice, their future material would sound a lot more destructive, deathly touching and better than what was displayed here. I don't think that DYSCARNATE aimed to release an album just to fill up their discography, there should be a purpose and quality and development should be the main leading elements.
6 / 10
Had Potential
"And So It Came To Pass" Track-listing:
1.The Weight of All Things
2.In the Face of Armageddon
3.Cain Enable
4.A Drone in the Hive
5.The Promethean
6.Engraving Ecstasy
7.Grinding Down the Gears
8.Rise and Fall
9.Seizure
10.Kingdom of the Blind
Dyscarnate Lineup:
Tom Whitty- Guitar & Vocals
Henry Bates- Bass & Vocals
Matt Unsworth- Drums
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