Disfigured Dead – Visions Of Death (2010)

As with the current re-make and ‘bring back the old stuff’ trend that plagues Hollywood these days, we have a similar trend when it comes to music. We have Trash Metal coming back, old-school Death Metal returning, and etc, etc, etc. Disfigured Dead play, like you can guess from the album cover, ‘old-school’ Death Metal like in the early days of Cannibal Corpse, Incantation, etc.

The band has no single piece of originality to it, BUT they mimic the ‘old-school’ sound to perfection. This makes Disfigured Dead attractive to some of us that sometimes are looking to hear something from back in the day, but are tired of spinning the same CD’s we have in the last 10-15 years.

The riffs are repetitive, the song structures are very simple (alternating from trashy sections to mid tempo DM sections), but this is EXACTLY what this style of music is supposed to sound (or so we think). We don’t need extremely complex riffs or superb musical compositions, this music comes down to catchy, brutal and digestible songs that will make your neck snap from head banging, nothing else.

The production behind ”Visions Of Death” is gritty and direct, this band surely uses no ‘studio magic’ on their tracks, and that is very refreshing these days. All around the music is very basic and features a wide variety of parts that will make you think: Hey I heard that in <insert oldschool album> over and over.

Disfigured Dead does a great job at bringing back an old-school sound and staying true to it, if they could figure out how to make original songs this band would be considerably better.

Release: March 5th, 2010

Country: USA