Deals Death
Point Zero Solution
Spinefarm Records/Universal Music
2013
It’s with fast steps that this new Swedish melodeath metal band moves on and it does become better & more mature with every new release. Almost a year after their second album, “Elite”, they are back with their third release in a 5-year period since their founding. This album also introduces a new member of the band, the bassist Kammo Olayvar.
Influenced by Children of Bodom, Klaham, Dark Tranquillity, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Norther among others, Deals Death are trying to draw their own personal line even though they do basically engage the sound of the abovementioned groups and they cannot escape the similarities or the genre’s clichés. You see there’s a good and a bad side for everything. Surely, their newest work will mostly appeal to the fans of the above mentioned bands but it won’t add anything new to the genre in general.
“Point Zero Solution” is a well-produced and well-made album on the whole. I like their melodic parts and I think they must give more attention to them as well as to the atmospheric ones in the future if they wanna break the barrier and present something “a tad diverse” than the usual Scandi-melodeath thing. “Passion for Infinity” & “Paramount Authority” are the best examples of that and they should go this way, in my opinion. Closing, if you’re looking for a good Scandi melodeath album with lots of melodic parts then do check out “Point Zero Solution”.
Influenced by Children of Bodom, Klaham, Dark Tranquillity, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Norther among others, Deals Death are trying to draw their own personal line even though they do basically engage the sound of the abovementioned groups and they cannot escape the similarities or the genre’s clichés. You see there’s a good and a bad side for everything. Surely, their newest work will mostly appeal to the fans of the above mentioned bands but it won’t add anything new to the genre in general.
“Point Zero Solution” is a well-produced and well-made album on the whole. I like their melodic parts and I think they must give more attention to them as well as to the atmospheric ones in the future if they wanna break the barrier and present something “a tad diverse” than the usual Scandi-melodeath thing. “Passion for Infinity” & “Paramount Authority” are the best examples of that and they should go this way, in my opinion. Closing, if you’re looking for a good Scandi melodeath album with lots of melodic parts then do check out “Point Zero Solution”.