Desultory - Counting Our Scars
I’m going to ignore this band’s 1996 gay porn soundtrack, Swallow the Snake, so let’s pretend that Scars is the long-awaited follow-up to ‘94’s melancholy Death Metal classic, Bitterness. I loved that album maybe ever so slightly less than the band’s flawless 1993 debut, Into Eternity, and so had very high hopes upon hearing that Desultory had reformed and would record again. Counting Our Scars really does pick up right where Bitterness left off, although do I miss the thick Sunlight Studios guitar sound. But that’s the only thing missing. The remaining guys have clearly studied ex-guitarist Stefan Poge’s Thrashy, mournful riffs and solos to such a degree that I was surprised to discover that he wasn’t included in the reformation. I’m tempted to question why some bands get back together after such long hiatuses, but when the result is this good, who cares. Hopefully it won’t be 16 more years until Desultory’s next album.
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