Lividity
To Desecrate and Defile ()
Wydane przez War Anthem Records/Code 7/Season Of Mist/Soul Food Music DistributionRok wydania Kraj USANapisał Wouter7
Long-running Illinois death metallers Lividity have a history going back until 1993, but it was not until 1997 that they released their "Fetish For the Sick" EP. "The Age Of Clitoral Decay", Lividity's debut, finally came in 2000. A second album called "…'Til Only the Sick Remain" followed in 2002, after which the band split. In 2005 the band returned with a revised line-up (Deaden frontman Von Young has replaced the inimitable Matt Bishop and a new drummer was found in Jordan Varela) and gone is the sludgy Autopsy groove of old, replaced with a frantic semi-technical high speed assault, on the band's subsequent "Used, Abused and Left For Dead" record. "To Desecrate and Defile" sees Lividity returning to a more groovy sound. New drummer Garrett Scanlan (Corpsevomit, Cumchrist) is far more varied compared to Varela's work behind the kit. The three-way vocal abuse reminds of Carcass-meets-Deicide in a whirlwind that approaches (early) Nile. Recorded at Mercenary Digital Studios in Zion, Illinois with Scott Creekmore "To Desecrate and Defile" comes with a bass-heavy production and a crunchy guitar tone and natural sounding drums. The artwork, design and lay-out by Isis Design is superb. The album comes as a regular edition, plus a limited edition (1000 copies) including a DVD, capturing the band's set at Party.San 2009 in Germany. "To Desecrate and Defile" is a good addition of Lividity's backcatalogue and sees them successfully merging their old – and new style of death metal brutality. The album also includes two cover songs of legendary German death metal combo Blood.
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