Deceased - Surreal Overdose
After some surprising disappointments so far this year (Morbid Angel, My Dying Bride, and to a lesser degree Pestilence, plus a couple more I don’t even want to mention), it’s encouraging to know that the old school defenders of the Metal faith collectively known as Deceased will never let us down. Main-man King Fowley had to take several years off of drumming to recover from some health problems, and so the band’s previous album, 2005’s As the Weird Travel On, featured October 31’s excellent skin basher, Dave Castillo, with King relegated to just singing. And as great as that album was and is, and certainly no disrespect intended to Castillo, it just wasn’t quite 100% up to snuff (very close, though!). But now, with my #1 pal King back behind the kit, all is right in the Metal world once more, and Surreal Overdose is absolutely unstoppable. Deceased has long mixed bits of Thrash and earlier Heavy Metal elements into a very unique, intricate, and instantly memorable Death Metal style, complemented as always by King’s singular vocals, which are perhaps more gruff than raw. This is one of those rare bands that seems utterly incapable of writing a bad riff, or even a merely okay one, and so the first listen to each new album is a celebration of how things should be done, with each subsequent spin revealing more and more depth, as only the true classics can. And that is what Deceased delivers -every time: a masterpiece.
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