Cost: $1.00
This is an old find from 10+ years ago, and should have been one of the CDs I got from my very first visit to the same store that produced the June 22, 2013 haul. Unfortunately, well...I accidentally left it at the store. The dollar CDs there were in floor level cabinets, with some overspill stacked up on the floor. So while amassing my purchases, I was placing my to-buy stack on top of the CD stacks, and I inadvertently left a couple of the bottom CDs behind, including the Dead Orchestra disc (and of course it was the best disc out of the 20 or so I found that day). I only realized after the hour long drive home, but luckily it was still there when I went back a few weeks later. That particular store has been gone for a few years, so I wanted at least one post to commemorate one of my first finds there.
The album is a great dollar bin find, although personally I think it falls somewhat short of being extraordinarily good. The foundation here is quite technical thrash/crossover, and they certainly love their speed. At the beginning I didn't make too much of the meatier Exhorderesque riffs they'd throw in here and there, and I figured a lot of the speed was due to Cryptic Slaughter or similar influences. But it's impossible to ignore the times when the vocals get quite evil (on "C.C.V." they're quite Cancer-like) and they're playing total deaththrash passages. I try to avoid moaning about wasted potential or should-have-dones since that's all hypothetical, but I do think some of my slight disappointment comes from the overall inconsistency with the presence of some of the more generic crossover stuff. The extreme parts make me long for a pure deaththrash album; had they devoted themselves entirely to speedy tempos, they could have also given Sadus some heathy competition. Then again, for a buck I'm not complaining either...
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