This case is just one of those killers. These kinds of albums come rolling in, start doing their job and leave you there unnoticed. You know, like the kind of conversation you might once have had with your mom, with her saying "What kind of garbage is this??" you answering "This is Death Metal mom, this is what I listen to", followed by the never ending "Ah well, it's just a phase, he will get out". Well, now you are here. A few years later; listening to some refined death metal brought to you by DEPRESSED.

The album started with a nice small intro called "Dark World Depressed", which has a nice vibe, and it holds on, although I did for a while think, even in the subtle change towards "Afterlife in Darkness", the nice album-titled song, that they would do the entire album talking through a megaphone. Luckily it was not that way. Damn well vocalized and well-written lyrics are being spewed forward in your mortal faces by Giovani Venttura. Compliments here, because these vocals are just well done, and the lyrics have a, as the band name might suggest, depressing feel over them.

Although I mostly don't really like the depressing stuff, this album has a very nice power. The rawness you find is well tuned, and even with the lesser hard pieces, with more refined moments, such as "Zombie Epidemic", this band continues to surprise. Even the solos.

As far as listening experience goes, in my opinion, the album might somewhere have seemed to let me almost slip into slumber, yet somehow it regained my attention by giving away some well-shaped solos. For that achievement, Mr. Murillo Hortolan and Augusto Alves deserve all the applause they can get.

But mostly, this album is well constructed. It contains almost no flaws when it comes to fluently bringing over their music and message. The endless power this album seems to have is one refinement in the grand scheme of things. Well-constructed riffs, sometimes seeming like a lullaby, make this album worth it. Somewhere it even made me feel as if they went back to the bone structure of metal: classical. Yes, I said it. They made me feel as if I was listening to the brutalization of a gigantic orchestra, as only the grand masters of the genres could do in their waltzes. So for that nostalgic feel in the music, one hell of a thumbs up.<