### Unbidden: Slaughtering the vile

#### 07/02/11 || Lord K Philipson

Godfuckendamn, don’t people even try to think up a good word or 5 to represent their band these days? I have said it before: it’s always fun to discuss a band’s name and it usually makes for a good start of any review. I promise to keep the tradition up in the future. By the way, Unbidden should tour with Forbidden and hire someone called Usama Bidden Lan Party as the merch guy.

Let’s move on…

With a title half-stolen from At The Gates, the other half from Cannibal Corpse and an album picture of 5 mongoloids in various metal shirts (Slayer, Misery Index and shit I can’t, or don’t want to, see) – you know these fuckers play death metal. Maybe. Appearance can be deceiving.

But not in this case.

Unbidden sports a very bassy production with somewhat shit vocals, some technicality, American idiot blastbeats and a few melodies thrown in for good measure. The problem is none of those melodies sound particularly good nor impressive, and neither does the album as a whole.

I guess these guys think Cryptopsy, Cannibal Corpse and The Pinks are the best fucken bands in the world. I also guess they don’t have a fucken clue as for how to re-create what their masters have been doing for decades. It’s in cases like these you leave the work to said masters and concentrate on doing something completely different.

It sounds like they can handle their instruments, but can they do magic? Most of this semi-technical shit isn’t impressing me anymore. Not when the vocals are an annoying element all the time and the songs do nothing but drag along… and drag along… and drag along. At times he sounds like that fucken cocksucker, Gollum, from “Lord of the penises”. That’s not a compliment. Also, if someone can tell me who they stole the beginning from for the tune “Visceral cadaverine” you’ll win a date with these guys. It’s irritating anyways.

So, yeah… They got cool song titles, a bassy production, some tech stuff all over the place and tons of non-memorable material. And it isn’t poorly executed or anything. It’s just… there. No way I can give this more than a:

- Information
- Released: 2010
- Label: Self-released
- Website: Unbidden MySpace
- Band
- Devin Stoddard: vocals
- Remy Tartaglia: guitars
- Lorne Tompkins: guitars
- Matt Maclennan: bass
- Dale Landry: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Carnivorous retribution
- 02. Vitiate
- 03. Cast the stone
- 04. Primeval
- 05. Visceral cadaverine
- 06. …Wherein lies deceit
- 07. Iblis