Deranged - Morgue Orgy
Deranged were kind of an anomaly when they first came out. I remember them being one of the only Brutal Death Metal bands out of Sweden back in the early ’90s. Back in those days, it seemed as if every Swedish band wanted to sound like Entombed, Dismember or Unleashed. Deranged, though, was more along the lines of a Swedish interpretation of Suffocation or Cannibal Corpse. Morgue Orgy continues with the Brutal Death Metal attack that the band has honed over the years. You get guttural vocals aplenty, down-tuned guitars and blasting drums. The songs are straight-forward, bludgeoning you in the face like a sledgehammer-wielding psychopath from the beginning to the end. If you’re looking for flashy guitar playing or operatic female vocals, you’re looking in the wrong place. Deranged doesn’t do any of that. They deliver the brutality as good as any band in the genre. The production on this EP is fair, but someone needs to work on that snare tone. It sounds like a metal garbage can lid, and is also far too loud. The other drums in the kit seem to be okay, but when Rikard Wermen rides that snare, particularly during the blast beats, he drowns out the guitars. The vocals are unaffected, though. Singer Anders Johansson is always front and center, gurgling away over everything like the Swamp Thing with a throat problem. One surprise here was a cover of “Milk” by S.O.D., mostly because it sounds nothing like the original. I could barely recognize it when I heard it the first time. If I hadn’t known ahead of time that this was a cover song, I would have never know because it sounds pretty much like every other track on this EP. It was an odd choice, but the band does a good job of making the song their own. If they had been completely faithful to the original, it would have been out of place, but their rendition had Deranged written all over it. If you’re a longtime fan of the band or of Brutal Death Metal in general, you’ll probably like this . It’s a “meat and potatoes” delivery, giving you everything you want without any frills.
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