2004-03-22
I have to say that the first few seconds I gazed upon the album’s cover I was certain that its another black metal band from Norway, surprisingly enough, its actually a melodic death metal band, unsurprisingly, they’re from Sweden…
But lets put aside the fact that Sweden has more melodic death metal bands than blonds, the main thing is that most of them do it really well (the bands, not the blonds) and construcdead is one of the best.
The band is comprised of sacral veteran death metal players, the most known of them s probably their drummer, skin basher for the Terror 2000 project, a pet project for Darkane and Soilwork members, both excellent bands.
Construcdead do not follow the rout set by these two bands, they create something much closer to what At The Gates did in their last album, meaning aggressive death metal, with melodic aspects.
The vocalist growls in a lower voice than Tompa’s one, setting himself in the middle section of the death vocal scale, nothing too fancy, but he sits well in the complete picture.
The sound is no less than brilliant, smooth and flowing, every instrument finds itself in the mix, and it allows the music clarity, which would have been impossible with lesser sound, due to some complex riffing, such as ion the second track.
Truth is, construcdead is one of melodic death’s heavier sounding bands, the bashing drumming in the first two tracks being an excellent example, the third track, as time bleeds, is a true melodic gem, one of the best death tracks I heard this year, but the following tracks (excluding the forth, another melodic one) are usually much heavier than any preformed by In Flames, for instance.
I also liked the band’s texts, its evident that some thought was put into them, and that elevates any band in my book.
All in all, In Flames fans will enjoy this, but only those that like the death side of ‘em, not only the melodic one.
Alon Miasnikov
