Despised Icon is back with a new album. It’s called “Day Of Mourning” and it sounds just like the one before it. And the one before that one. Which could be seen as a flaw I guess. Then again, Despised Icon is one of the only deathcore bands worth listening to.
When they dropped “The Healing Process” back in 2005, they blew a lot of people clean out of their shoes with their überbrutal sound and they haven’t slowed down one bit. Or it would have to be in the atmospheric closer “Sleeples” which starts off as a long drawn out instrumental soundscape. But by the time you reach that track, you’ll already have been bludgeoned over the head with single-note breakdowns, excessive use of the double bass drum pedal, violent death metal riffage and to top it all off a dual vocal assault. While one guy comes at you with cookie monster vocals or shrieking like a banshee, the other crawls up behind you with a hardcore bark. And believe me, you’re no match for them. “Day Of Mourning” will get you on your knees in less than half an hour.
Score: 7 out of 10
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