Dead Inside – Dead Inside
I stumbled on this band while stalking about on MySpace one day. Tagged by themselves as black ‘n’ roll, I was instantly impressed. Based on other b ‘n’ r bands I have heard, Dead Inside are the first that can truly live up to their claims.
It’s black and pumps along with an easy, foot-stamping flow like blood pouring from an open artery. The album opens up with a colossal riff that snaps your head back and forth involuntarily. Snarly vocals tear into your ears. This would be great music to kill to! It sounds like a wicked hybrid of raw BM and hardcore but replacing all that baggy shit and skateboards with axes, knives, nail guns and cheesewire.
This album has made me realise that too much recent BM is really over produced. What made me realise it? The drumming. It rips along with the guitars perfectly, and they sound like real live drums should sound – no triggers, like they were recorded in a garage.
The guitars have a heavy feel to them and have real substance. Virus, the vocalist, snarls insanely right through, like a savage BM pitbull. They’ve got some great riffage, a nice balance of different paced songs and an instrumental in there too. My personal favourites are ‘The Devil’s Haven’ and ‘Lunatic.’
It makes for a nice change to listen to something different every now and then. This album certainly is different and is well worth checking out.
I admit I was more than a little sceptical when I got a request to review this Italian band. I wasn’t sure what to expect from a band that sounded more like some American gospel singers than satanic Black Metal! Thankfully after literally one second of listening my somewhat ridiculous assumptions were raped and pillaged [...]
I only recently discovered Rahu, who purvey original and very replayable Finish Black Metal of the highest calibre. This is a demo from 2008 that has since been released as part of a best of featuring this and their other demo on one CD. Although there are only three tracks delivering a mere seventeen minutes [...]