A review of Dead Will Walk "A New Day of Dawning"

 

Dead Will Walk

"A New Day of Dawning"

Dawnbreed Rec. 2022

Dead Will Walk is a fresh name on the scene, albeit formed by people who already have years of musical experience. Admittedly, their earlier incarnations somehow never made it under my thatch, but today I focus mainly on the here and now. As the band's previous EP sounded quite promising, I reached for "A New Day of Dawning" with great interest. And it was with undisguised satisfaction that I discovered that the Dutch have made significant progress. Seemingly revolving all the time in pure-blood death metal, they have developed and largely refined the ideas germinating on "Unleash the Dead". The six new compositions are a real mosaic of different factions of the genre, welded together by a basic condition. It is the old school and omnipresent atmosphere of the nineties.  Already the first seconds, after a short intro, grab us by the neck and throw, head down, into the well of death metal. A well in which powerful riffing in the old fashion reigns. There's not much originality in it, but who cares, if each successive chord unleashes an incredible dose of adrenaline, forces you to mosh wildly and recalls the times when the genre celebrated its greatest triumphs. Do you miss Florida, the British Isles, maybe Stockholm? There you go, everything is laid out here on a tray, adorned with beautiful-looking accessories. Dead Will Walk's music has an uncanny groove to it, it's both brutal and melodic at the same time, and it's upbeat enough that it quickly falls into the ear and by no means flies out with the other one. The guitars carve very rhythmically, moving smoothly from one riff to another and changing tempo quite often, the rhythm section successively ramps up the depth and a raspy, deep, quite intelligible growl hovers over the whole. All the material is very even, and in fact it's hard to spoint out any of the tracks, as they're all a solid kick in the ass, from a run-up. This kind of death metal crushed bones, smashed to a pulp and sitting on a throne of skulls was triumphant three decades ago. This is the kind of music I always return to most fondly, because it reminds me my adolescence. If you love metal of death, you must not miss this material, because it would be negligence on a high scale.

- jesusatan