Demigod - Shadow Mechanics
After a decade of silence, Finland’s Demigod return from the grave with a new album. You know, one of the first Death Metal bands I got into was Demigod and I’ve never really forgotten them. When Death, Morbid Angel, Entombed and Unleashed first started kicking my ass, I went down to my local “cool” record store (the one that stocked import and independent bands of all sorts) and found a CD called Slumber of Sullen Eyes on Drowned Records. The logo looked cool and for whatever reason, I bought it. They promptly disappeared after that album. This album is their comeback effort and I have to say that though it’s good, it just isn’t the same Demigod that appears on Slumber of Sullen Eyes. Shadow Mechanics reminds me a lot of early Amorphis (before they started getting influenced by Finnish Folk music and ‘70s Hard Rock) mixed with some of the more modern “groove oriented” Death Metal. The music is a bit more melodic this time around and the style they’re playing is less concentrated on sounding brutal as all fucking hell. In a way, that change is good because it makes their songs more distinctive and memorable. Still, I miss the all-out skull-smashing mayhem of the first album. If they could have brought back some of that, this would have fucking ruled. As it is, it’s still a kick-ass album, but not the masterpiece that I was hoping for.
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