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Album Review: Deserves To Die

Album: Surrender All But Our Skin
Label: Grind That Axe

Formed in 2005, Deserves To Die have rapidly gained notoriety via their four-song demo and immediate invitation to tour with bands of the calibre of Enter Shikari, Send More Paramedics, The Architects and The Bled. After being invited to play the Leeds and Reading festivals they signed to Grind That Axe Records and hired Dan Turner, of Bullet For My Valentine fame, to produce on this beast of an album.

By managing to reproduce their fearsomely aggressive live performances the Yorkshire five-piece have created a record to be proud of. The ear-shattering vocals dominate with the two differing styles standing out from each other. The main vocal is a gigantic guttural roar that sucks you in, whilst the mid-range scream of the other, surprisingly reminiscent of The Automatic backing vocalist, is a lung-tearing shriek which blasts you back out. Unfortunately this second vocal is often overused, becoming distracting when it’s not at the forefront. It’s most effective when the melodies kick in and quietens to form some impressive harmonies.

Outstanding tracks are Decisive Hour with its scorching riffs and unsettling roars sang over driving bass, Without Reason at a snappy two minutes, memorable for it’s stabbing double-kick, and She Screamed Hatred - a blinding example of pure violence in musical form – a more well-defined structure with glottal-stop drums and fizzing guitars. Despite all these great songs the band has a tendency to criminally fade out the better songs. Combine this with the sludgy sound quality and there’s something disappointing about the final outcome. Don’t write them off just yet though. This is still a band to keep an eye on considering they’ve just secured a support slot on the all-conquering Lamb Of God tour.

For fans of: As I Lay Dying, Lamb Of God, The Haunted
Band link = Deserves To Die

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This review originally appeared in Subba-Cultcha.

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