SOUL DESTRUCTION

Descend The Trend - Promo Review
(Promo CD)

Using both a sledgehammer and a fine paintbrush to describe the subtleties of a violent act with elegance and empathy.  That's the sound of a soul being destroyed.
This EP is definitely something just a little bit different.  I think I am right in saying that Soul Destruction is the mastermind of two gentlemen, Mark Susans and Dave Hobbs, who have created this initial volume of stories told in song.

Descend The Trend:

01. Beautiful Suicide
02. A New Religion
03. Spiral Of Violence
04. Disgrace
05. Dysfunctional Reality

Soul Destruction - Descend The Trend Demo Cover
With song titles like these, you can see that the subject nature is often about powerfully emotive subjects that are frequently personal experiences or strong opinion.

Musically, there is a lot of influences here that combine to create something that is very difficult to explain and far beyond a category.  There is one factor that does remain throughout most of the tracks here and that is an intense emotive component that pours over your auditory senses.  There are contemporary sequenced sections of rhythms and beats that suggest an industrial or even dance route, but equally there are unrefined ripping guitar riffs that share the same airspace, augmented with distressingly demanding vocals that would tear throats.  But that's not it all, because there is also a wrapper of atmosphere that engulfs the whole sound, one which manages to successfully bring the diverging elements together.

This is a very nicely packaged collection, one that offers a nice insight into the minds of these spirits of desolation. If you are after heads down metal then this might not be for you however, if you want something that is a little leftfield and requires more than just pressing the play button, then I am sure that you will enjoy Soul Destruction.  I certainly did.

Rigsby (4th July 2001)
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