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Deathless Anguish - Demise Inception

Surprising, Adviced record. - 63%

GraveWish, January 1st, 2008

In a time where metal bands starts to release commercial albums; with lack of creativity and repetitive music, discovering talented unknown bands become listener’s priority. An interesting fact to note is that “Deathless Anguish” is the first metal band from Saudi Arabia to release a full-length: “Demise Inception”. Judging based on the band’s origin few will even try to give the band a listen. Led by curiosity, I was one of those few or even “lucky few” will perfectly fit in this case.

In fact a pre-judgment of the band pushed me to listen to the album.
First, I’m a fan of the oriental folk influences combined with the metal music. As the band hails from Arabic country, I thought those influences should be associated, as many bands from such countries, more or less with their sound.
Secondly, signed with a label such as Empire Records, a well established metal records label from Poland, gave me some good impressions about the record quality.
Finally, a metal band rising from a fanatic Islamic country can be considered an unusual interesting event to discover.
Unfortunately I was wrong about the oriental folk influences; but that wasn’t much disappointing.

The band plays death metal in the appropriate term. Neither useless melodies nor clean vocals only death metal riffs combined with growls, harsh vocals and undetermined shrieks. The three members accomplished a great work, each one playing an instrument with a high technique. The guitar riffs can be considered simple, with few complex parts; played very fast but still extremely heavy. Usually we can’t expect much from a one guitarist band, especially when the member is the band’s unique vocalist too. Kamal Khalil accomplished a much more then expected work on this record.
As for the drums, Talal Al-Shawaf is exceptional with those crushing insane blasts reaching a professional rank, despite the huge difference of experience compared to talented drummers. The drumming is one of the album’s highlights.
Fawaz Al-Shawaf’s bass is heard nicely in some song. In others they are almost merged with drums, because of the high speed, but without any inconvenience.
One notable inconvenient is the repetitive way to start each song with almost the same shriek.
Your typical death metal lyrics about death, gore and violence are almost missed in this album. Deathless Anguish use political lyrics, not so hard to figure out why judging on the band’s location.

Overall, “Demise Inception” is a brilliant 2007 release. For all non-melodic death metal fans I advice you to get this record in order to give some credits to this band, who managed to release a metal album; despite being from a country where metal music is forbidden in all it aspects. I won’t give highlights to specific tracks because the whole record is nice to listen to.