Deadend in Venice – See Your On The Ground (2011)

As just another female fronted metal band, today we have the Germans from Deadend in Venice, a band that claims to play Melodic Death Metal, but sometimes falls into the Mallcore scene. We can’t really say the music is bad, since the musicians are very good and some of the songs are catchy, but just the whole concept and idea has been done to death that we can probably pick 10 cd’s at random from our promo collection and find at least 4 bands that are the same.

Opening with “Hate Sweet Hate”, we have very traditional (but not bad) riffing and male screams (that are not to our full liking), everything is pretty standard and then the female vocals come. While the female vocals are not bad, they are pretty standard and sound almost exactly like Francine Boucher from Echoes of Eternity, in fact the music of Deadend in Venice sounds a lot like said band minus the progressive elements.

“Personal Decay” features some nice riffing that is quickly obscured by ridiculous amounts of repetition and the male pseudo-clean screams that made us want to cry.  A few good riffs go by in “War”, “Long Way Home” and “The Monkey in My Closet” (probably the worst song title EVER), but nothing too memorable to call home about.

The lowest moment of the album (in our opinion) has to be in the song “Dirty Little Princess”. While the music is actually not that bad (but a bit ‘pop-ish’ in nature, a la Amaranthe), the fitting of the lyrics into the song structure is probably one of the worst ones in history. You can clearly hear the words getting all screwed up to fit the song, very funny and dreadful indeed.

We really can’t say that there is anything extremely wrong with this release (except for the awful “Dirty Little Princess” track), but it’s something that we are too used to hear and brings nothing new to the genre. If you like overly repetitive and highly commercialized Melodic DM / Metalcore music, you will surely like this album. However, if you are looking for something original stay far far away from this release.

Release: March 5th, 2011

Country: Germany