### Deathronic: Duality chaos

#### 05/03/13 || Ironpants

“One man project that is experimenting symphonic black death metal, combining several influences such as electronic music, oriental, doom and old school heavy metal! ….mixed & mastered in April 2012 by Fredrik Nordström and Henrik Udd at Studio Fredman (Dimmu Borgir, At the Gates, Opeth, In Flames, etc.) – the famous Gothenburg Sound!”

Well, I could fucking stop right there and grade this shit without even listening. The amount of name dropping and genre squirting usually means the opposite. In this musical description they have cranked in just about every musical genre available except country and polka. What you actually get, is something not even near the genres listed above. Some piano and synthesized infested poppy tunes with uninteresting programmed drums and a few guitar licks thrown in for the fun of it, topped off with some constipated growl. I’m not really sure what the goal with this recording is? Is it to piss of extreme metal heads? If so… mission accomplished! My dog shits out harder pieces than this, and he suffers from foul bowel movements after feasting on raw bone marrow all day long.

This is an EP, and for that we praise you! Not counting intros and a “No vocals” version of one of the tunes, we get 4 songs that is stuffed with way to commercial Arch Enemy rip off riffs (“Bloody lust”) and annoying keyboard driven choruses with happy crappy drum beats (“Disharmonia part II”), together with clean goth singing teaming up with sensual whisper growling and once again that annoying keyboard usage (“Anno 1423”). The only tune that almost gets it done is “Khalila da vimna”, which is an oriental inspired tune where the keyboards aren’t allowed to rape the song with it’s “Top of the pops” sound. That song is also included without vocals for our convenience, almost like some self conscious feeling that the strained growling isn’t that awesome, allowing us to investigate the song one more time with a desperate hope that it will grow on us?

Dude! This shit just doesn’t cut it, I have the most of respect for people that accomplish projects on their own, but the back side of such things, is that there aren’t some other band members around that can tell you what blows. There´s still hope though, step down from the black/death/doom metal horse completely and gather a band of equally minded members, preferably with some chick doing the vocals and you are not that far from doing something that some people may actually want to hear. Maybe radio rock or power metal is your thing? Those genres wasn’t listed in the description above, but what the hell, a few more couldn’t hurt? It sure as hell isn’t some black, death or doom to be found here.

3/10: Self-awareness is a good thing, get some help next time.