Deathronation - Exorchrism
I don’t know very much about this band. The review copy/download was lacking in information and actually had the band’s name spelled wrong, so it took some Internet research to even figure out who this is. What little I initially knew about them came from the music itself. The best way to describe Deathronation, who I would eventually discover are Bavarian, is to say that they play slow-to-mid-paced Death Metal in the older Florida style. This is a compilation of demo material, with the first six tracks from 2010’s demo, also titled Exorchrism. (Or is this a reissue of that demo with bonus tracks? Is there a difference?) The next five songs are from A Soil Forsaken, which was released in 2006. Even without this information, you can easily tell the two sections apart. The songs on Exorchrism are longer and the sound is definitely better. It still sounds like a demo recording (mostly owing to the “recorded underwater” drum sound), but compared to A Soil Forsaken, everything’s clearer. Oddly, I liked the songs on A Soil Forsaken better, though. They were shorter and more to the point. It didn’t meander as much as Exorchrism did. These guys learned to play their instruments better and wanted to show that they could write better songs with more interesting guitar-work. The net effect was that they lost a chunk of their memorability. There’s still plenty to like on this album, though. It has enough brutality to make your head bang and it doesn’t get overly technical. It’s straight-out Death Metal that delivers the goods where the goods need to be delivered.
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