Saturday, May 10, 2025

Deviant - Endless Black Skies (2003)

 
Cost: $2.00

I bought this thinking it was going to be a fairly straightforward modern thrash or groove metal CD, but this actually mixes the groove/thrash stuff with some death metal, which I wasn't expecting at all. The songs generally lean one way or another. Even when they play groove metal riffage, there's a beefiness to the guitar tuning and tone that gives it a slight DM feel. There are some actual chunkier death metal riffs to be found as well. Vocals mostly ride the line--there's an aggro shoutiness to them, but they're also quite gruff and often on the cusp of being full on guttural/growling DM vox. They slightly remind me of Max Cavalera.

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