Dyscarnate is something. This British Death Metal was quite brutal as well as usual death metal band.
Really it's something for me. With some groovy riffs and brutal drum pattern made this band an unique band. But, you know.... Its like deathcore too. But not much, just about 20% perhaps. As we know as usual death metal band always gives some badass guitar lead in almost every song. This band didn't have it, but they were quite smart for making a good riff in every song.
Modern death metal is in an identity crisis, with bands not being able to decide whether they want to venture out into the new wave of "old school" death metal or follow the masses and be technical messes or the thousands of other genre leanings. Dyscarnate, however, are pretty fucking clear about what they want to do: play kickass riffs. Top to bottom this album is just riff after riff. Borrowing heavily from the ideas of early Obituary, Jungle Rot, and modern Behemoth Dyscarnate is perfectly content with being a band that is purely about linear death metal. [1]
Unfortunately, this album is incredibly one dimensional. By the time "Grinding Down the Gears" is roaring through the headphones, you just want anything else. Then another hardcore breakdown fucking barges in and just tramples all over you. It becomes riff chaos after that as everything just swirls in and out of your ears, causing the rest of the album to go sort of un-listenable. Some might find this overwhelming powerhouse of riffing enjoyable, but at this point all these breakdowns and double bass patterns are becoming too similar. Not entirely devoid of being memorable, thanks to the killer fucking chorus sections like in "The Promethean", but so similar that it becomes pretty grating. This is super unfortunate because the final track, "Kingdom of the Blind", is so chock full of adrenaline and ferocious riffs that you just kind of forget about listening to it. [2]
Tracks
01. The Weight of All Things
02. In the Face of Armageddon
03. Cain Enable
04. A Drone in the Hive
05. Engraving Ecstasy
06. The Promethean
07. Grinding Down the Gears
08. Rise and Fall
09. Seizure
10. Kingdom of the Blind
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