Yesterday, I pulled together music from three old-school death metal bands who’ve been honing their craft for about two decades each. Today, we’re dealing with death again, but these are much younger bands and their linkage to death comes more from their choice of names than from the style of metal they play. But listen, although it may not be steeped in pus and corpse-meat stew, it’s still mighty tasty.
Both Deathember (Sweden) and Deals Death (Sweden again) are bands we’ve covered before at NCS, and both of them have recently released new videos that are worth seeing and hearing.
DEATHEMBER
We first encountered Deathember in October 2010, featuring a brief review of their first EP in one of our MISCELANNY posts. Last November, they released a second EP with the title of A Thousand Flatlines. It includes six songs and is available via iTunes, Amazon mp3, and the band’s BigCartel site.
Yesterday, they premiered their first music video for one of the new songs — “Scapegoat”. The band and their friends financed and made the video themselves, and especially for a “homemade” project, it’s unusually well done. It’s devoted to the band performing the song, and the performance looks like I imagined it would from listening to their music — a balls-to-the-wall blast of screaming fun.
That’s really what I’ve felt from the beginning about Deathember’s music — it’s just fun — the kind of fun you might have if you were strapped on the back of a famished cheetah going about 100 mph and trying to get you off your back so he could eat your head, along with your soft parts. You fly, you want to mosh, you get some electric charges through your nether bits, you get a breakdown, you want to mosh some more, you get some fuckin’ flash-fired rock ‘n’ roll at regular moments. You get some goddamned ENERGY!
You can find Deathember on Facebook here.
DEALS DEATH
Almost exactly one year ago, we featured this band and a video for the song “Fortified” at NCS. Since then, they’ve been signed by Spinefarm Records, and their debut album Elite was finally released last month.
Now we have another video. This song is “Collapse”, but it’s like the opposite of a collapse. It’s like a high-energy expansion — a blast-wave of Scandinavian melodic death flowing out from an ignition point, with heat and vibrating pulses leveling those frail structures that stand in its way.
It’s like Deathember’s music in this sense: Not because it’s the same style at all, but because it pushes all those”Fuckitall, let’s headbang!” buttons.
Yeah, and I bet the chicks still get moist in their jeans over Olle Ekman’s sinews. But shit, flaunt it if you got it.
Deals Death’s Facebook page is right here.
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The name ‘Deathember’ realllllllly makes it sound like you have a bad lisp.
Oh yeah? What about this band:
http://www.bandbase.com/blacksepthember/
The singer for Deathmember kinda reminded me of a preppy Johnny Rotten. Without the track marks. (I’m assuming. I wasn’t looking that closely…)
Also, how had no one thought of using “Death Death” as a band name before Death Death did?
I have dibs on Death Death Death. Only we’ll all just say Death Cubed. And then we’ll get into some weird Cubism cult and start wearing Picasso masks. It can only end in sadness.
Put your hands over your head and walk away from the whiskey glass! Now!
If only I had some whiskey..I’m just starting the work week. Wooo!
Isn’t Deals Death the band featured here?… As far as one can make out, there isn’t any band called ‘Death Death’. [There is a song though.]
‘Death Cubed’ reminds one a little too much of Death Cube K (Buckethead‘s ‘alter ego’). Perhaps one shall just stick to ‘Death Death Death’ if it comes to that.
Anyway, what do you think of ‘The Death of the Dying Dead’ as a band name?
“Death Death”: that’s why I tried to get him away from the whiskey. He claims he’s working, but I know better.
Perhaps you forgot that I’m a certified moron.
I like Death Death better than Deals Death.
Yeah, I get that. There’s a kind of punk energy to the song and the video.
Is heroin still a thing?
I think so?
It’s still the largest cash crop in Afghanistan, isn’t it?
yeah, that’s a point. So it’s still a thing. I guess I’ve just gotten old enough that I don’t know anyone who uses any more.
I’ve never known anyone who used. I thought it was a fictional thing when I was younger….