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Dead for Days - Creating Murderous Domain

Intriguing if not super enjoyable - 70%

Noktorn, March 9th, 2010

This is an interesting album in that it's an example of what happens to NYDM when all the groove is removed. This doesn't make it just a flurry of blasting and technical tremolo riffing (though there is plenty of that), but the groove is replaced with churning, equally technical midpaced sections. The band's music recalls a more technical (and competent) version of early Dying Fetus for the most part, minus the proto-slam and typically more interesting; the NYDM sound is full if demonstrated in a way very different from, say, Skinless. It's a fairly interesting piece- if you're a brutal death devotee anyway.

Plenty of time on this album is dedicated to hyperblasts and technical tremolo riffing, but it's a bit more involved and interesting than most. Dead For Days uses a rather customized style of low to high tremolo riffing, with a huge amount of string skipping and highly dissonant melodic sense, and this technique pervades just about every track on the album, giving the faster sections a rather unique and creative spin. The midpaced sections are a little more traditional in nature, with flurries of tight palm-muted chords breaking up some of the more dense blasting sections and providing a reprieve from the speed. There's no real release of the tension on this release; it just moves from technical blast passage to technical midpaced passage and back with no real sense of 'normal' groove or slam to be found. It makes for an intriguing if somewhat difficult listen.

Dead For Days doesn't really sound much like any other band I've heard (maybe Dyscrasia in dribs and drabs), and it seems to me that this style would be hard to replicate. The material on 'Creating Murderous Domain' probably wouldn't be strikingly original to anyone not immersed in brutal death, but to the aficionado (if you could call one that), there's a lot of interesting material. I'm sort of on the fence as to how much I enjoy it; it's certainly an interesting release with a lot of novel qualities, but typically I'd put on something more readily entertaining and less convoluted. When I'm in the mood for something a little abstract and odd, I'll throw it on, but there are releases I'll reach for before this one really. It's a worthwhile album, just not a particularly fun one; call it Fleshgrind part two. Anyway, if you like brutal death, this is worth investigating at least as an interesting little sidetrack from the average.