There are times when we all have to face a trial: to stay in the past, or to walk into the unknown future ahead. So, what would you do in this situation? Personally, Big Daddy here, from his own experience, prefers to face the future, to walk into new possibilities and taking all the risks without fears or complaints. In the past, especially in the 70s, 80s and 90s, this was the main driving force behind Metal bands...this need to do something different from the others. But since the end of the 90s, a fashion came: the search for the past, the model of "we don't want to do nothing new at all" that some bands use. It is truly disgusting in my opinion If you don't want to create something different, then be a fan, and leave your musical instrument aside. It's the best you can do for Metal and for yourself.

Stated this, we can say that DEVOURED FATE's first work, "Reality's Nightmare Illusions" is a good try to sound as in the past, but the flaws are evident. They play that crude way into Doom/Death Metal in the same vein of bands like those from Death Metal uprising on the beginning of the 90s, with clear influences from bands as ASPHYX, ENTOMBED, GRAVE, BOLT THROWER and others, but with slower tempos. Nothing new at all, and that haunting feeling that "I heard that somewhere before" is constant. Their musical work lacks some personality. It's not bad, but it's not different from thousands of bands we all heard before. The musical production is good in term of songs, because they really find the spirit of the thing itself. But the sound quality as nasty as this seems to be a cloning process, again some search for a kind of Death Metal's Holy Grail, but such thing doesn't exist. A more clear quality could have good results. But this one isn't really good.

Eight songs wait to torment our ears. On "Purely Fuckin Demented", you can hear that raw and dusty feeling from the roots of Doom/Death Metal on the work of bass guitar and drums, with abrasive guitar parts, and the same elements are found on "Spiritual Embodied Death". The nasty guitar parts on the slow "Unleashed Rapture" are good as well, along with these haunting grunts. And on "Mind Fog" and "Hollow Cadaver", again the slow tempos and guitar riffs are good. But these features can't save the album. It's not a total loss, the band has potential. But they must leave aside this excessive respect for the past and put something of them on their music. Maybe with a good producer, their future work can be better than this one.