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Death metal is such a limitless genre. You can do whatever you'd like. It can be over the top technical or slow. Brutal or insane and it's all so good. When we made "Visions of Death" it just came out with a natural old school-ish vibe and that's great, but our newer material has a much more modern technical vibe. I love how death metal has evolved.
For me, death metal should be heavy as fuck, brutal (which doesn't necessarily mean "fast"), atmospheric and evil. If the "evil" thing is not there, you can't label yourself death metal, that's a fact. I'm so fucking close minded when it comes to metal music... I listen to the SAME hard rock, heavy, thrash, doom, death and black metal that I used to listen to 15 years ago.
With a history reaching as far back as 1984 Thanatos can be truly called Holland’s earliest death/thrash metal band. Coming 5 long years after Thanatos’ superb “Undead.Unholy.Divine” (on the now defunct Black Lotus Records) Deity Down Records have released what is probably their most important and prestigious release to date. The downtime hasn't hurt guitarist/vocalist Stephan Gebedi and his comrades one bit seeing how “Justified Genocide” is the band’s most raw and aggressive album to date. Together with Paul Baayens (Hail Of Bullets) Gebedi lays down a dense and choppy torrent of neckbreaking and fingertwisting riffs. Marco de Bruin (bass) and Yuri Rinkel (drums) follow suit and both have come more into their own since the last record. Great cover of Massacre vintage groove classic ‘Dawn Of Eternity’ and Sodom’s ‘The Burning Of Sodom’. Recorded at Excess Studios, Rotterdam and mixed/mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound Studios in Orebro, Sweden “Justified Genocide” comes with a bone-heavy production that reserves enough individual space for each instrument while giving the whole a heavy but wide-range while retaining the band’s old school rawness. The artwork, design and lay-out by bassist Marco de Bruin is probably the best Thanatos have had to date. Thanatos might just have delivered their most accomplished and brutal record to date.http://www.deitydownrecords.comcomment itWouter 8
