Defeated Sanity
Passages Into Deformity
Willowtip (2013)
I feel the need to preface this review by declaring that I am a fan of death metal. I like the idea of any music that challenges the average listener and in the early 90’s, death metal bands were doing just that. Bands like Cannibal Corpse, Death, and Obituary were leading the charge to push heavy metal to its most extreme limits. While these and a few other notable bands were all classified as death metal, each managed to blow away boundaries with their own unique spin on the budding genre. Unfortunately, that desire to stand out from the crowd seems to have been disregarded by many modern death metal bands.The roots of Defeated Sanity can be traced back to the mid-90’s. On Passages Into Deformity, they proudly wear the attributes of classic death metal like a straightjacket. The album is filled with 90’s death metal-influenced riffs that often come across as little more than leftovers from the very bands that inspired them. To say that a death metal band sounds like Cannibal Corpse or Death seems downright redundant at this point, but Defeated Sanity cling to the basic death metal ideals so tightly that they end up leaving themselves … Read more
Various Artists
ROBOCOP / DETROIT - Dead Language, Foreign Bodies Split LP
Give Praise (2012)
sharing similarities that reside more than just their names Robocop and Detroit both play blinding fast powerviolence indebted grind. While … Read more
Tegan and Sara
Heartthrob
Warner Bros. (2013)
Canadian sisterly duo Tegan and Sara Quin seem to think they’re fools in relationships. Just look at some of their … Read more
My Bloody Valentine
m b v
Independent (2013)
In what might be one of the longest case of collective breath holding since a band’s last previous album, My … Read more
