Thursday, February 15, 2018

Devoid of Grace - "Psychotic Journey" [2010]

Artist: Devoid of Grace
Title: Psychotic Journey
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Russia
Release date: 2010

Track List:
  1. Killing For Salvation
  2. Distorted Perspective
  3. Chaos - New God
  4. Demonosphere
  5. Blind Mirror
  6. Virtual Addiction
  7. Refactoring Noise
  8. Prodigy (The Prodigy cover)
Here's a rather obscure technical death metal band from Lipetsk, whose director was one of my best friends at the time when this album was released. They were formed in 2001, but released their first demo only in 2008, and their one and only full-length album in 2010. No idea if they're still active (but if anyone really wonders, I can try to ask their director about that, since I'm still in contact with him).

They claim to be influenced by such bands as Decapitated, Death, Meshuggah, Vader, Cryptopsy, Strapping Young Lad and Emperor, and I can say these bands have no reason to be ashamed of such successors, as Devoid of Grace show a very decent level of musicianship on this album. However, they don't really bring anything particularly new or original to the scene, so I'd recommend this album only to the fans of the genre:

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