DECEPTION - Inferno (DIE TODESRUNE Records - CD 2011)
I was really curious about this album. I obviously
had to purchase a copy of it, since I own all the previous Deception materials
in my collection, so “Inferno” also had to be in it, but I was very curious
about this album especially, since I was questioning the quality of the
previous full length CD “Nails Sticking Offensive” a lot. While both demos
(“Age of Suffering” and “Holy Deception”) and the debut album (“Nuclear Wind”)
were really strong death metal efforts and the music from these releases was
really able to cause some serious damage with its relentlessness, ferocity and
aggression, then “Nails Sticking Offensive” was a huge disappointment. Not only
the songs on it were just dull and not as effective as the previous materials,
but also the production on this CD was just awfully bad, I personally hated it,
since it only caused an unnecessary mess and chaos, making the music completely
unlistenable and unreadable, really. “Nails Sticking Offensive” was and still
is pushing me away; I cannot listen to this CD. And this is why “Inferno” was
sort of the test for Deception, for me at least. Will the band bring the
quality back, will they prove to be worthy band or will they fail again and piss
me off again?
Well, right with the first seconds of “Sheep
Under the Knife” I knew one thing at least. I’m really glad that “Inferno” got
much better production than “Nails Sticking Offensive”. The sound on this album
is really powerful, very aggressive and energetic, what is great and for me
necessary, when I’m dealing with such an intense and fast death metal music.
Really, the difference between those two albums in the productions matters is
huge, and I can say that “Inferno” is definitely the best sounding Deception effort
so far… which is great news for me. I knew from then on that I won’t be
disappointed with this album… and well, I am not, I’ve listened to it several
times already, been constantly giving it a spin for past three or four days and
I can say that “Inferno” definitely is a good death metal album. It brings back
everything what I missed on “Nails Sticking Offensive” and even more, as style
wise it doesn’t really just repeats what the band was creating on their early
efforts, but is something much more than that. Deception definitely has
improved their songwriting, now being able to compose some more diverse stuff,
but also came up with some really untypical parts, which are most noticeable in
“Manifest”. This one song, not really my favourite one from the album, is
definitely a standout track, bringing attention with some untypical, chorus
vocals and quite surprisingly played middle part. And if you won’t be pushed
away too much by some of those vocal ideas, which Deception used in it, then
you’ll also like “I Stand Above You” and “Inferno”. This title song bring also
much more surprises, as it starts with clean guitar parts and quite slow,
almost sort of epic fragment, which definitely brings a lot of variation and
melody to the whole album and lets the listener to take the breath before he’ll
get smashed by the death metal wall again.
Meanwhile songs like “Fire, Blood and Death”,
“Plague” or “Sheep Under the Knife” are more or less fast and merciless death
metal slaughtering pieces and you can be sure that the main part of “Inferno”
is also focusing on that, but again – just like “Nuclear Wind” – the whole
album avoids being monotonous and is sticking
to just one, unvaried sort of playing. Listen to “Broken Chains of Slavery”,
which definitely belongs to my favourite tracks, as an example. More mid paced
than really fast, but it has some splendid moments and you can hardly resist
screaming “Die Again!!!” with the band. And of course there’s also the title
song, which I already mentioned before, which really is something what
Deception hasn’t done before, but I must say I really like this track a lot
also.
So, I must say that I’m really pleased with
what I’ve heard on “Inferno”. I was afraid that Deception will fail to deliver
quality death metal again, but that didn’t happen, the band has matured
definitely and improved a lot. And I can really recommend “Inferno”, as this
album makes me forget about the lousiness of “Nails Sticking Offensive”
quickly.
Standout tracks: “Broken Chains of Slavery”,
“Plague”, “Nihilistic Act”, “Inferno”
Final rate: 80/100
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