| Which is less than it deserves, because
Decapitated, while breaking no new ground at all, are one hell of
a death metal band. They practically write their own feature stories:
they’re from Poland (hook), they’re all under twenty-one
(line), and their press photos reveal that they share at least twenty
feet of hair among the four of ‘em, not to mention enough collective
glowering to scare away a whole doorstep full of Jehovah’s Witnesses
(sinker). I had their first album, Winds of Creation, which
I thought was all right except for the vocals, which were pretty run-of-the-mill.
Nihility doesn’t break any new ground vocally -- the trend
in death metal of the non-melodic sort has been away from any vocal
dynamic whatsoever and toward a uniform low-level roar, and Decapitated
isn’t bucking the trend -- but from a strictly musical standpoint,
it’s the sweet bleeding state of the Art. |
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