  
This was another nice free gift I received from
Metal Hammer magazine, the 3rd studio release
of British death metal band Dead Beyond Buried.
These guys have apparently been kicking around
since 2001 on the local London scene in spite
of only releasing their first studio album in
2007, that’s an awfully long time to make
any established fans wait for or even to remember
your material; they followed it up in 2009 getting
excellent reviews across the board from some quite
prestigious publications. So that brings us to
2012 and not only have they given a physical copy
away with Metal Hammer but they’ve put their
full album up online as a free download for everyone
to acquire which is admirable.
Not really big on death metal myself but I will
appreciate those bands that excel in the genre
like Napalm Death, Morbid Angel, Behemoth, Decapitated
the list goes on. So pulling apart this album
into individual sections I’ll give credit
to the musical aspect of the sound as it has its
moments where it’s quite distinctive and
interesting but there are also times where it
just sounds to similar to other acts and becomes
quite bland. There is only so much extreme double
bass and blast beats I can handle which is why
I normally stray away from this kind of thing
because its just so full on all the time, “The
Rupturing” doesn’t let up from start
to finish which is impressive as it must kill
the guy to play but it also hurts my face.
The vocal work I can’t really say much about
as they just sound to me exactly the same as the
vocals from the likes of Decapitated, I mean at
least with Napalm Death his vocals are universally
recognisable as unless someone had told me this
was a new band I would have probably said about
a million other acts before I guessed who they
belonged to. On that same note though they do
fit the material but I would definitely have tried
to get a bit more variation on the record as to
have more of a selling point. On the whole the
album is well crafted and has its defining moments,
but as a general death metal release it mostly
sails into the middle of the pack really, not
bad but not really going to make a huge impact
on the scene.
3.5/5
Review By James Webb
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