Descend
Wither ()
Wydane przez Inverse RecordsRok wydania Kraj GermanyNapisał Flemming Gabin6
Descend are from Stockholm, but actually sound like a 90s Gothenburg band. To be fucken honest, I thought this band was German going by their sound cos this sounds a lot like Fragments Of Unbecoming, or Golem. You know, fucken kraut metal bands trying to sound Swedish. Anyway, this is the first Swedish band on Inverse Records to my fucken experience and it is actually is… good. Who the fuck knew, right? The past three records from that label went from absolutely fucken terrible to tolerable – here’s another worthwhile band to add to that fucken list. I was under the fucken impression that Inverse only signed bands from Finland, the land of Armi Païvinen. Who the fuck cares? It could have been a lot fucken worse, like another stupid metalcore band ripping off the shitastic "Slaughter Of the Soul", or fucken In Flames, or God Dethroned. By Odin, it could have been a lot fucken worse. Just saying. Anyway, this sounds like a fairly typical melodic death metal band. I’ll never fucken understand why this is labeled as "progressive". I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: being like everybody else is not being progressive, that is called being conformist. It’s all fucken here, tho. Iron Maiden riffs, rasping and growled vocals, plenty of rocking solos, prominent bass guitar lines, acoustics and the tempo isn’t too high. "Wither" is as cliché and pedestrian as its fucken album title. It’s all perfectly functional, and it is a breather of a record in between the usual fucken barrages of sloppy underground death metal, or fucken lo-fi necro forest black metal. All fucken jokes aside, "Wither" is actually pretty tolerable – not the type stuff that excites, but this is actually far better than it has any right to be. Especially if you consider that this fucken genre has been regurgitated by every two-bit scumbag with a guitar since… I dunno, 1998? So Descend play melodic death metal that isn’t completely fruity, and occasionally even sounds fucken evil. I know. What the fucken odds? Personally, I’d rather fantasize about Holly Eriksson’s ginormous boobs. Yeah, fucken priorities. "Wither" is interesting if you never heard pre-"Clayman" In Flames or fucken early Dark Tranquillity. The fucken thing is that Descend does it genre pretty well, even though it has no right to be. Geez. That isn’t to say I fucken hate this record. Fuck no. I actually enjoy for what it is. Oh sure, it hardly fucken reinvents the genre, and the production is way too fucken smooth sounding – but at least these fucks know what they are doing. That cannot be said about the majority of the underground. You know, this is a fucken record that I can listen sober. Which doesn’t happen all that fucken often. So yeah, sometimes standard works. Fuck off.
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