![]() ![]() I can’t praise this song enough – it is fantastic. It turns the typical song structure on its heads and goes for clean vocals on the verses with heavy and clean mixed choruses but the pace doesn’t let up even in the clean sections. Scars Of Misery is the 8 th track on the album and is a work of art. A great intro built up in layers but eventually just turning into a well-executed album filler. Strive To Struggle starts with real pace and a deep bassy sound before guitars join in and then the heavy vocals. Track 6, The Dark Mind, follows a similar structure to melodic death metal in raspy verses, slightly more melodic choruses and blast beats and while not standing out massively from the crowd, is a well written and executed track. Again the vocals really impress, especially near the end of the track, when the tempo raises a little. We’ll Meet Again comes next and took me by surprise as it is a 7 minute long ballad which I wasn’t expecting, at least not so early in an album but it works and is a really nice, really well put together song showing Degradead have talent that reaches beyond the confinement of their genre. ![]() The song is laden with breakdowns and even has an almost Flamenco guitar sound in the solo, ending with a real aggressive sound coupled with screams. Dead Becomes Alive starts with a little guitar picking intro and very fast and heavy vocals and drumming. The vocals again move up and down through many different ranges and are a real highlight of the track and the album altogether. For Better Or Worse is one of the real highlights of the album being more rhythmic then the first two tracks which gives it a gloomier feel. The song redeems itself though by upping the intensity to mosh pit standards for the final 30 secs. The title track follows next and again keeps the pace up with the raspy vocals hitting more ranges, some nice guitar solos but a peculiar slow down near the end which is almost spoken word for a few seconds and sounds out of place. Pretty typical fare for the melodic death metal genre but done to a high standard. The first track, One Against All, starts aggressively with fast paced drumming and riffs with raspy death metal vocals before hitting more melodic choruses with clean vocals. ![]() The Monster Within was released in August, 2013 on Metalville Records, clocks in at 40 minutes playing time and has 10 tracks on it. Degradead came recommended via Xbox Music as being similar to recent purchases and after spending the first 10 minutes trying to decide on how to pronounce their name, I decided to have a listen to their most recent offering, The Monster Within.ĭegradead are officially a death metal/melodic death metal band hailing from Sweden. The “For Better Or Worse” video can be seen below.I feel really blessed at the moment musically having accidentally stumbled upon a small handful of bands that I really enjoy and the latest on that list (and keeping with my current Scandinavian metal addiction) are Degradead. Five times more work, but five times more fun and inspiring plus it’s five times more fun to listen to.” All other processing are real chambers, hardware reverbs, delays, compression and EQ. We did it the hard way, with getting the right sounds from the start and having Amit actually playing the parts until we got the takes we needed, tuning the drums in between takes, switching snares for different songs etc… No plugins were used in the process either other than for very surgical tasks and special FX. No drum triggers or sample replacements used whatsoever, which is otherwise so commonplace in today’s metal productions. According to the band, “This album ended up being the best DEGRADEAD album so far! More dynamic, more melodic, more thrashy, more of everything!”Ĭommented Johansson: “It has been great going back to the roots even on this one. The album was recorded between January 14 and February 2 at Panic Room studios in Skara with producer Thomas “Plec” Johansson and marks the group’s first release with new drummer Amit Mohla. Emerging Stockholm-based melodic death metallers DEGRADED have posted the cover art and track listing for their forthcoming new album, The Monster Within, which will be released on August 23 via Metalville. ![]()
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