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Dååth - The Deceivers review



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7.5

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Band: Dååth
Album: The Deceivers
Style: Death metal, Industrial death metal, Thrash metal
Release date: May 03, 2024
Guest review by: Cynic Metalhead


01. No Rest No End [feat. Spiro Dussias]
02. Hex Unending [feat. Dan Sugarman]
03. Ascension [feat. Dean Lamb]
04. With Ill Desire
05. The Silent Foray [feat. Per Nilsson]
06. Unwelcome Return [feat. Spiro Dussias]
07. Purified By Vengeance [feat. Mark Holcomb & Mick Gordon]
08. Deserving Of The Grave [feat. Jeff Loomis]
09. Into Forgotten Dirt

Dååth's The Deceivers is a monstrous, genre-defying tour de force, a collision of technical ferocity and cinematic grandeur that demands your attention and punishes your complacency. Emerging from over a decade-long slumber with a revamped rhythm section, the band’s fifth full-length is less an album and more a comprehensively constructed assault on our senses. Packed with guest collaborations, this opus channels a collective creative power that feels as precise as it is overwhelming, delivering an experience that isn’t meant to be analyzed but wholly absorbed.

The album gets off to a good start with "No Rest No End," an encapsulation of Dååth’s atmosphere; it's an orchestra of chaos, where baroque string arrangements clash with pulverizing riffs and blast beats, creating a sound that recalls Fleshgod Apocalypse’s vigour and Meshuggah’s rhythmic complexity. The following "Hex Unending" doubles down on this intensity, weaving strings directly into the riffing with complexity, challenging even the most seasoned listeners of time signatures.

Krimh’s (ex-Decapitated) drumming deserves special mention here for his extraordinary performance in controlled chaos. His ability to toggle between double-time and half-time within the same section is as bewildering as it is brilliant, adding layers of complexity to an already dense sound. With songs like "With Ill Desire" and "The Silent Foray", it highlights Dååth’s refusal to be pigeonholed. The former oscillates between death thrash and melodic, string-laden choruses, before plunging into apocalyptic blast beats. The latter surprises with an electronic interlude that builds into a brooding, slow-burning finale. Then there’s "Deserving Of The Grave", to which Jeff Loomis lends his mastery alongside an infusion of Hammond organ that feels like a homage to Death Cult Armageddon-era Dimmu Borgir. Quite the interesting cut here.

The Deceivers is groove-packed, and it injects this groove into a death metal and symphonic metal framework. The structure of the album is anything but conventional—verses and choruses emerge almost incidentally amidst the storm, defying predictable patterns and rewarding repeated listens. However, the latter half of the record flirts with homogeneity, at times leaving listeners with a sense of borderline ennui. At just over 43 minutes, The Deceivers doesn’t overstay its welcome, but leaves you drained and exhilarated simultaneously.

In conclusion, The Deceivers is a stroke of creative audacity and technicality, an album that deserves to be in a year end's list. If you don't believe me, head over here for a maelstorm of conundrum.


Rating breakdown
Performance: 8
Songwriting: 6
Originality: 6
Production: -

Written by Cynic Metalhead | 17.01.2025




Guest review disclaimer:
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.



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