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středa 11. ledna 2023

Recenze/review - DEMORALIZER - This World is Suffering (2022)


DEMORALIZER - This World is Suffering
EP 2022, vlastní vydání

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Představte si opuštěný dům na konci ulice. Vypráví se o něm děsivé příběhy. Kdysi se tam stala vražda a dodnes je krev nasáklá ve zdech. Pokud vstoupíte dovnitř, budete mít divný pocit. Násilí vstoupí do vašich snů, usadí se vám v hlavě a zadře pod kůži. Někde mezi sněním a šílenou noční můrou musela vznikat i nová deska holandských DEMORALIZER. Na recenzi mi přišla nahrávka, které mě ihned přikovala na zeď.

Základem je ostrý, nekompromisní a surový smrtící kov. Přidávány jsou lehce modernější prvky, démonický vokál a spousta temnoty. Jako bych se díval na ošklivý hororový film, který ale není fikcí. Jedná se o syrovou a hnusnou realitu. Poslouchejte hodně nahlas!


Pokaždé, když navštívím místo, kde se stalo něco ošklivého, mrazí mě v zádech. Podobně se cítím i při poslechu "This World is Suffering". Šest skladeb, které připomínají rezavé hřeby, které mi jednou zatlučou do mé rakve. Skvělé, morbidní a chladné melodie, rytmus, u kterého mám sto chutí mlátit pěstí do stolu. Musím vyrazit ven a zbourat první zeď, kterou potkám. O DEMOLARIZER jsem nikdy předtím neslyšel a jsou pro mě obrovským překvapením. Poslouchám kov smrti přes třicet let a opravdu si hodně vybírám, o čem budu psát. Nizozemci mě ihned zaujali, k nahrávce jsem se rád a často vracel. Má v sobě spoustu vzteku, mrazu, tmy a nakumulované energie. Songy se velmi dobře poslouchají. Kombinace starého i novějšího způsobu zabíjení se myslím vyplatila. Kapela působí jako dokonalý stroj na vraždy. Zůstává po něm jenom spálená země. Do hlavy mi byly vyfrézovány drážky a mé kosti jsou rozdrceny na prach. Masivní, ostrý zvuk, obal, nápady, vše sedí perfektně na svých místech. Navíc, z riffů odkapává čerstvá krev. Jsem moc rád, že jsem měl tu možnost "This World is Suffering" poslouchat. Kapela mě vzala na výlet bez konce, na místa, kde se stalo něco zlého. Kývám spokojeně do rytmu, usmívám se. Tahle hudba vyhřezla na povrch temné myšlenky. Je jako nějaká šílená morbidní galerie. Skvělá hrobnická práce! Zničující death metal, který odtrhává maso od kostí! 

pro fanoušky: CANNIBAL CORPSE, SUFFOCATION, MORBID ANGEL, MONSTROSITY, BRUTALITY


Asphyx says:

Imagine an abandoned house at the end of the street. There are scary stories about it. There was once a murder there, and to this day, blood soaks the walls. If you go inside, you'll get a strange feeling. Violence enters your dreams, settles in your head and burrows under your skin. Somewhere between dreaming and a crazy nightmare, the new album by Dutch DEMORALIZER must have been created. I received a record for review, which immediately pinned me to the wall.

The foundation is sharp, uncompromising and raw death metal. Added are slightly more modern elements, demonic vocals and lots of darkness. It's like watching a nasty horror movie, but it's not fiction. It's a raw and ugly reality. Listen very loud!


Every time I visit a place where something bad has happened, I get chills. I feel the same way when I listen to "This World is Suffering". Six songs that remind me of the rusty nails that will one day be hammered into my coffin. Great, morbid and cold melodies, a rhythm that makes me want to pound my fist on the table. I've got to go out and knock down the first wall I come across. I had never heard of DEMOLARIZER before and they are a huge surprise to me. I've been listening to death metal for over thirty years and I really pick and choose a lot about what I write about. I was immediately intrigued by the Dutch, and I have returned to the record happily and often. It has a lot of anger, chill, darkness and accumulated energy. The songs are very easy to listen to. The combination of old and newer ways of killing it paid off, I think. The band comes across as the perfect murder machine. All that's left is scorched earth. Grooves have been milled into my head and my bones are pulverized. The massive, edgy sound, the cover art, the ideas, everything fits perfectly in place. Plus, the riffs are dripping with fresh blood. I'm so glad I had the opportunity to listen to "This World is Suffering". The band took me on a trip without end, to places where something bad happened. I sway contentedly to the beat, smiling. This music spewed dark thoughts to the surface. It's like some crazy morbid gallery. Great gravedigger work! Devastating death metal that tears flesh from bone!

For fans of CANNIBAL CORPSE, SUFFOCATION, MORBID ANGEL, MONSTROSITY, BRUTALITY

tracklist:
1. Intro: The Stones of my Tomb
2. Unmarked (Intermezzo)
3. Silence
4. Alive to Die (official videoclip on youtube)
5. Home (This World is Suffering)
6. Children of Armageddon

Current band line-up:
Reinder Dorman – Songwriting, vocals
Yuri de Wolf – Songwriting, guitars
Jacco van de Haar – Bass guitar
Pascal Payens – Drums


A few questions - interview with death metal band from the Netherlands - DEMORALIZER.

A few questions - interview with death metal band from the Netherlands - DEMORALIZER.

Date: 28-12-2022

Answered guitarist Yuri, thank you!

Ave, can you introduce your band to our readers? – When was it founded and what style of music do you play etc.?

Hello there, Yuri guitarist from the band Demoralizer over here! To start off with a short introduction:

Demoralizer is a new death metalband from the Netherlands. The band was founded by me and our bassplayer Jacco in 2019 after after our previous technical deathmetal project Shredding the Masses broke apart. It took over a year to find our drummer Pascal and our vocalist Reinder before we could finally start writing some death metal songs together.

Interesting to note that our vocalist Reinder, was execially a death metal drummer in a technical death metal band “El Chupacabre“ after his band felt apart, he wanted to explore his grunting & gutteral metal vocals in another metalband. So we were happy we got in contact with Reinder while we were searching for a vocalist.

Our drummer Pascal is our most experienced bandmember, he played in several death / black metalbands such as: Vermin, Syncardion, Chainsaw Surgery and other studio projects with Dark Attic Records. He was the last bandmember wo joined us, before we could finally start working as a band.


Where and under what conditions were you recording the new album? Who was in charge of sound, production and mastering?

For me, as the only guitarist and responsible for most of the songwriting, I started recording all the guitar tracks for our EP at the beginning of 2021. Our plan was to record the guitars first, then the bass guitar and finally the drums and vocals in the studio. It’s in a reversed order, but during COVID I could record a lot already from home.

In november that year when I finished like 95% of all my recordings a became very ill and was diagnosed with cancer. In 2022 I had to recover from 2 surgeries and had to undergo radiation- and chemo therapy. In between all that I managed to finished the songwriting and recordings for our EP and in June we recorded our video from our song “Alive to Die“ https://youtu.be/3X-3en1l6XA

In July the vocals and drums where recorded in the studio with our producer Roelof Klop https://www.roelofklopmusic.com/. I know Roelof for many years and he has allready done succesfull productions for many metalbands. He was also reponsible for the mixing proces. The mastering was done by 2 times Grammy Award and 3 times Latin Grammy Award winner Nacho Molino https://nachomolino.com/

How many copies were released and which medium was used for this new edition (CD, digital, vinyl, cassette)?

Because of our current situation with me still beeing threated with chemo-therapy and missing a second guitarist. It was not important for us to press cd’s or vinyl as in our situation we can’t do any gigs and we have no label or distribution agency to sell cd’s online. So a digital release is most convenient for us right now. You can buy our music at our Bandcamp page: https://demoralizerdeathmetal.bandcamp.com/track/this-world-is-suffering or stream us on many platforms such as: Spotify, Amazon Music, Youtube Music, Deezer, Soundcloud.


Who is the author of the lyrics and how were they created and about what do the lyrics deal with?

All lyrics are created by our vocalist Reinder. Also our first intro song:“ The Stones of my Tomb“ the music was mostly written by him. He often mentions that he just likes the angry emotion and attitude that comes with grunting and screaming, so the lyrics kind of reflect that. Most things are about thing you might notice in your life if you are a bit (hehe) demoralized. The state of the world, state of ones own life or psyche. Themes are mostly nihilism, fatalism, or good-old-fashioned just seeing stupid shit in the world and not agreeing with it, and wanting to shout as loud as possible that humans can do some weird dumb stuff. Reinder said he can be a bit introverted and ruminate a bit on people being annoying. Other than that he’s not an angry guy.

Who created the logo of the band, and who took care of the graphics and the website? What about you and social networks? Do you consider these things important?

The logo is designed by Mike Hrubovcak from https://www.visualdarkness.com/

Interesting fact: Mike was also the vocalist of the band Monstrosity a few years ago.

The art-work of our EP is done by Kiandra-Visual, this guy is an exceptionally skilled drawer and managed to create art-work based our the concept we described. Definitely worth to check out his port-folio.

Which label did you choose for releasing your album and why this label? Are you satisfied by how your label represents you and takés care about you?

We do not have or had a label at all, everything is self released by us.

Which bands do you idolise and where do you get your inspiration?

I cannot speak for every bandmember, but for me personally the bands who inspired me most are e.g. : Necropagist, Cannibal Corpse, Jinjer, Chimaira, The Zenith Passage, The Faceless, Haken and lot’s of other different bands.

You check my Spotify playlist if you are interested to know more:


But what’s most important to mention, is that every bandmember has it’s own inspirations and has it’s own creative space in the band during our songwriting proces to express himself. I only write the guitars for the song structures as a base for every song. Then and every other bandmember adds his own creativity until our songs are complete and meet our requirements.

Did you send your record to some Labels - which are the labels? How was the response?

No we did not send any promo’s to any label at all. Our focus was to launch a digital release on every major streaming platform. We mainly our digital promo to many E-zines, radio‘s and websites to get reviews, interviews and airplay. So far the reactions our EP release are very positive and more reviews will be published in the near future and we look forward to it.


How many gigs have you played? Which type of gigs do you prefer, whether it's (clubs or festivals) and which of your performances would you consider as the best?

We have not done any gigs so far. The reason for this is first of all we still miss a second guitarist. And secondly because of my diagnosis I am still under hospital threatments, that‘s why we had no chance to perform any gigs yet. So we can’t really say as band what kind of gigs we prefer most.

What about your plans for the future? What do you want to achieve with the band?

At this moment we are in contact with a second guitarist. We hope he will join us soon permanently and we can present him as a new member of the band. Also my chemo-therapy will finish in january 2022, if my situation remains stable as it is now we can definately think of planning gigs. And if that would happen I would definately want to press pysical copies of our EP. I think most guys in the band really want to get on the stage and blow some people away!

How and where can your fans contact you? Can you provide some contact information?

The easiest way for fans to get in touch with us is via Facebook, just sent us a message and it will be me answerring your messages 😊 .

Here a link to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/demoralizerdeathmetal

For other inquiries such as interviews, promotions, gigs and labels you can contact us by email: demoralizerdeathmetal[at]gmail.com

Thanx for the interview.

You too Jakub! Hope this was interesting for you as well for the readers of Deadly Storm Zine.

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