REVIEW: LIFELESS - THE OCCULT MASTERY

 

LIFELESS - THE OCCULT MASTERY

F.D.A. Records

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Definitely more brutal than 'Godconstruct' just not as catchy, I felt.  But still a good album.  A lot of screaming and brutality.  Some really good melodies as well.  They didn't earn this "B" rating for nothing!  I just thought that it was their more extreme side to them.  And the leads were solid.  Pretty clean and fast!  I just felt this evil vibe to this one but it's the direction that they wanted to take on here.  Everything on here is super intense and tight.  I just felt that they should've slowed down a little but the Swedish type of guitar tone is that of other bands that have this vibe on the guitars such as Dismember, Entombed (old) and Entrails (to name a few).  However, they're from Germany acquiring this taste in guitar sounding Swedes.  Fleshcrawl is another German band with the Swedish sounding guitars.  They use the same pedal.

This album spews forth anger and aggression.  They really are over-the-top on here.  It's something to listen to when you're angry.  The music is fast and the vocals are ferocious.  I would venture to say it's without a doubt their most extreme release.

They don't change it up much in terms of their brutality here.  It's just over-the-top noise-terror!  They have a little variety here in clean guitars but not much.  They're overall release is utterly uncompromising.  It's one of those albums that is just balls out intensity.

They haven't been actively releasing albums since 2017 when this one came out.  Maybe they're going to re-assess and slow down a bit.  But I'm not sure if they're going to venture on that route.  Maybe or maybe not.  Overall, the guitars were devastating and the vocals totally blaring in your speakers!  They fit the music pretty well.  The guitars featured a lot of tremolo picking and other fast melodies.  Can they reenact this intensity I'm not sure.  But this album deserves some recognition for being extreme as it is.  I'm surprised there have been no reviews for this release.  It's baffling, what an intense and melodic yet evil vibe.  What are you waiting for?  Check it out!

Ryan “Death8699” Fanucchi