DECEPTION - Nails Sticking Offensive (OLD TEMPLE - CD 2007)
Ha, this is really nicely released CD. Old
Temple released it on a 7”EP size foldout cover, what looks really impressive
and definitely stands aside from the usual jewel case CD (I don’t know whether
the US version from Sevared Records is also released in this big cover or it’s
in a standard CD?). Strictly limited and hand numbered, “Nails Sticking
Offensive” definitely was an important release for the band and Old Temple.
Personally, I must say that I also had quite big expectations for the second
album from Deception; well, after being shredded to pieces so brutally by two
demos and the debut album, only good things should have happened with “Nails
Sticking Offensive”.
After listening to “Nails Sticking Offensive”
many times I have two things to say: one, the album is a complete failure and
disappointment and two, its name should be the utter chaos. I really hoped that
Deception, while continuing the style, which they have developed on the previous
recordings, will erupt with ferocity and quality, which would be able to put
the buildings down into ruins. But I am afraid that nothing like that happens
and the album disappoints hugely. It is still fast and extreme death metal,
“Nails Sticking Offensive” is probably even the fastest and most uncompromising
piece of music, which this band has spawned so far. But there’s also a complete
lack of logic and control over the music and the whole album is just a total
mess and chaos. I don’t know if it’s due to the production, but the fact is
that “Nails Sticking Offensive” is barely listenable.
The sound on this album is really bad. I mean,
generally it would be OK, but the mastering and mixing are completely fucked
up. The snare drums is way too loud, so are the vocals, while the guitars just
disappear in the wall of noise, so you cannot really hear what the riff is like
and in the end everything sounds like an uncontrollable, unreadable, utter
noise – and a powerful production is something very important, when you’re
dealing with such an intense music, right? And sorry to say, but there’s no
pleasure in listening to something, what makes you only tired and gives you a
headache, right? Besides, I have doubts that even if the production of “Nails
Sticking Offensive” was better it would save the album in any ways, as I have a
feeling like the material on this CD is way worse than the demos and the debut
full length, really. There’s not a single song here, which would catch my
attention, not even one track, which I would define as something what stands
above the rest and was able to explode in my face and wreck the shit around.
There are some particular bits and pieces, some riffs, which are cool and could
have been a good start for a killer death metal song, but they really disappear
quickly in this fuckin intensity and noise, which “Nails Sticking Offensive”
produces. The opening riff for “Conceited God” would be a good example for
that, but they’re just short fragments in the 30 minutes long chaos. There are
songs, which I just hate – tell me if “Postnuclear Encyclica” has any sense at
all, when the purpose of it is to make a blasting noise? This track is composed
of one, repetitive riff, around which the band screams and growls and drums
fast and really, nothing interesting comes out of it, and this song turns out
to be a completely worthless piece of shit, which shouldn’t ever end on an
album of band of this quality like Deception. But as I already mentioned, none
of those songs is good enough, really. “The New Age of Death” – another fuckin’
crap. Hmm, and is it my imagination or did Deception got slightly influenced by
the war / black metal (or whatever they call themselves?) bands like Revenge
and Black Witchery? Or it is just due to the raw production? That at least
would explain why everything sounds so horrid and chaotic.
In the end “Nails Sticking Offensive”
disappoints and I really cannot listen to this album much. The best thing about
it, except the cover, is the fact that it’s just 30 minutes of music, so it
didn’t annoy me so much that I had to throw this CD out of my window and bury
it in the trash. So, I strongly advice you not to listen to this album and
recommend getting other Deception releases, as they’re way better than “Nails
Sticking Offensive”. Trust me.
Standout track: none of them
Final rate: 55 / 100
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