Birth Of Depravity
The Coming Of the Ineffable ()
Wydane przez Inherited Suffering Records/Anopsys RecordsRok wydania Kraj GreeceNapisał Wouter5
Greece has become a new haven for extreme metal in the last decade. With bands like Cerebrum, Inveracity, Remnants Of Flesh, Sickening Horror and now Birth Of Depravity Hellas is becoming a hotbed. Birth Of Depravity is a relatively young band (forming in 2005) that now debuts on Russian label Inherited Suffering Records. Judging from the bandname and songtitles one is indeed correct assuming that this is a fairly typical American approach to the death metal genre. The band is part early Cannibal Corpse (“Butchered at Birth”), part Aborted (“The Purity Of Perversion”), a dash of Cattle Decapitation (“To Serve Man”) and a bit of Suffocation for good measure. The record is as solid as it is unremarkable. The songs flow nicely and offer enough variation, yet the lack of leads/solos, an interesting drum fill or bass break is felt tremendously. The vocals are terribly uninteresting and one-dimensional. The bass guitar is in there somewhere, but its presence is inconsequential at best and functional at worst. Whatever happened to interesting and identifiable bass lines in death metal? Did they become somehow irrelevant in the late ‘90s? Like any band of the Disgorge, Origin/Unmerciful and Brodequin variety this record is an entire hookless affair with brutality as its primary focal point. As a result the record fills the required heaviness quota, but little beyond that. None of the tracks really stand out from each other and a signature track is even harder to come by. “The Coming Of the Ineffable” is a typical underground release as there’s a much to recommend as there is to steer a person away from it. Birth Of Depravity is a textbook example of a non-American band doing its best to mimick the US sound. All the basics are accounted for, yet there’s no defining trait to make this band its own entity. The digital artwork by George Prasinis (Gortuary, Spawn Of Possession) is as beautiful as ever. In all “The Coming Of the Ineffable” is none too shabby, but it isn’t an undiscovered gem either.
