DEIQUISITOR - Hexagon Vortex (ANCIENT DARKNESS - CD 2014)
It’s incredible how many
awesome bands are still there, hiding in the shadows, waiting to be
discovered?! Nowadays it’s almost every week, sometimes every day (!), when I
make such a discovery and find out about new fantastic horde. And few days ago
I made such a discovery, when I’ve started to listen to “Hexagon Vortex” from
Danish band called Deiquisitor. This CD, released by Ancient Darkness
Productions, really blew my head off and crushed mercilessly with some
excellent death metal. And I was like “YES! This band is awesome, why no one
knows Deiquisitor yet?” hehe. Well, partially it’s probably because this is
relatively new horde, with only one demo released before “Hexagon Vortex” and
secondly I suppose it’s also a matter of the overcrowded scene and just too
many names of bands, which you have to catch up with. Some may simply go by
unnoticed. Which I hope Deiquisitor won’t be, as this material I am listening
to now is so deadly good that they deserve more recognition among the
underground morbid death metal maniacs! Yes!
I suppose the first thing, which
really hit and caught my attention, when I first started to listen to this CD,
is the incredibly heavy, obscure, dense and black as a tar production of this
album. I mean it really sounds fuckin beastly and intense, strong… heavy as
fuckin mammoth. It is also quite rough, but all the instruments are audible
enough and have powerful finish, so in this kind of music it is a perfect
sound. But really, it sounds so deep, so severe! Obviously this production also
fits brilliantly the musical style of Deiquisitor, which is MASSIVE, extreme, grim
morbid death metal in the vein of some American classics such as Incantation,
Immolation, Vital Remains, early Morbid Angel, Drawn and Quartered and some of
these newer, but so deadly amazing acts like Father Befouled, Disma, Dead
Congregation and so on and on. Deiquisitor is the band of the same quality and
category and I really feel that there will be something exceptional and great
coming from them also in the future.
But now it’s time of “Hexagon
Vortex” and yes, this is great stuff. This EP contains only six songs with less
than 20 minutes on the clock, which is a bit unusual, as majority of bands from
this genre prefer longer, more extensive tracks. Anyway, there’s nothing wrong
with how Deiquisitor builds their music and what songs they have. And damn, as
I already mentioned several times, they do impress with how heavy and brutal
their music is. Chunky, bloodthirsty riffs, mostly played at fast or at least
mid paced tempos (I actually do miss some utter slow parts here… they would
give even more massive feeling to the entire EP), some very Immolation-esque
broken rhythms, deep, guttural, unreadable vocals… Simple means, but great
effect. And it all sounds excellent, with such abominable anthems as “Destroyer
of Worlds”, “Through Ethereal Deeps” and “Forgotten Origins”. I think I have
listened to this CD for at least twenty or probably even more times in the past
few days and I still can’t see the end of it. Excellent material, which I
highly recommend and now all that is left is to wait for another Deiquisitor
recording.
Final rate: 80/100
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