Not to be confused with the Florida death metal outfit Deicide, New Jersey’s Darren Deicide has a penchant for the blues, although song titles like \u201cKilling The Dead\u201d and \u201cDance Of The Demond Rag\u201d certainly do sound abrasive. On his first LP in seven years, Deicide brings in Reverend Adam Campbell from the Church of Satan and St. Louis talent Edgefield C. Johnston for the vinyl only physical release.<\/p>\n
After the album opener \u201cEvocation Of The Infernal Jukehouse,\u201d which is basically a quick shouted\/barking message that’s cryptic at best, the album moves into the guitar heavy and thick \u201cKilling The Dead.\u201d Deicide’s vocals put on their own show here, from spoken to melodic singing and even gritty at times, while the music is blues, hypnotic, and not short on grooves. \u201cStatic\u201d follows and bring the tempo down into a soulful, softer track that gets a little spooky near the end with ‘ghost’ like vocals. Deicide’s influences show through with the delta blues and heavy plucking of \u201cDevil Woman Blues,\u201d a tune based off Skip James’ \u201cDevil Got My Woman.\u201d Side A ends with the dirty, swampy rocker \u201cMy Star Spangled Banner,\u201d where organs, tambourines, and forceful vocals make this one an odd but highlight on the album.<\/p>\n
Side B leads with the mountain-esque instrumental acrobatics of \u201cDance Of The Demon Rag\u201d before the bluesy, dark, slide guitar of \u201cThrowing It All Away.\u201d \u201cBoom Power Boogie\u201d brings the speed and tempo back and makes great use of the Hammond organ for danceable, finger snappin’, toe tappin’ fun, and the album exits on, believe it or not, a Mercyful Fate cover, \u201cAt The Sound Of The Demon Bell,\u201d which sounds recorded live with distant vocals Deicide’s unique, distinct vocals.<\/p>\n
The album title translates to ‘The Blues Is Not Dead,’ and Deicide is not only proof of that but is bordering on forming a new subgenre of blues with his murky, unconventional approach that’s oddly enticing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10167],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-45287","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-darren-deicide","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45287"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}