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.
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