Review of Diabolic - Infinity Through Purification

You know what would’ve been really freaky dude? If the prophet Diabolic would’ve reviewed this album. Then it would be Diabolic reviewing Diabolic. I know there’s a band called Ancient and a prophet named Ancient. There’s a band called Ravenous and a prophet named Ravenous. There’s probably a band called Diesel but I just haven’t heard of them yet. What does all this mean? That a band needs to call themselves Haphazard and send it in to MetalReview so the planets can align and I can end up reviewing it? No, it just means that the previously mentioned prophets need to get cooler names. Anyway, Diabolic the band has provided me with a refreshing blast of lead-infested genuine Floricore Death Metal. This is pure Floridian style death comparable to olde-skool Malevolent Creation, Monstrosity, Krisiun, plus earlier Morbid Angel. Granted Krisiun is not from Florida but Diabolic has a similar blasting style to theirs as well. Actually, I’ll probably take Diabolic over Krisiun anyday. The intensity is there. The solid, speedy rhythms are there. The strategic, lengthy leads are there. But where Diabolic comes ahead is in their ability to write better individual songs w/ more emphasis and feeling. Out of the 10 songs, 9 of them get lots of replay from me. 3 of them get played into the fucking dirt. Let’s examine these 3: “Internal Mental Cannibalism”, “Procession of the Soul Grinders”, and “Descending Through Portals of Misery”. Internal Mental Cannibalism opens w/ a monster dark descent of uncut doom with 2 huge chords dumping blackness on you in bulk quantities. The remainder of the piece remembers its roots and breaks down into a haunting middle breather, followed by a very notey, very layered intermission. It sounds like at least 4 guitars at once. Soul Grinders has a super-heavy meaty tech-riff 37 seconds into the work. Just a dragging, chunky, mega distorted steamroller blast. But then it cleans up into some nice time changes and premium lead work. Speakers trade off w/ leadwerk duty for the last 3 minutes of the song under a tight & strong rhythm. And then to my favorite song on the album, and one of my favorite songs of the year, Descending Through Portals of Misery. This is some grade-A shit people. Diabolic utilize their extremely crunchy guitar tone and mold a brute riff for the opener; slow, thick, horrific, and just hanging there like a lingering burrito fart. The song is so powerful. It changes tempo many times, yet each riff and each lead fit the song like a glove. It fades out w/ the emotional rhythm underneath, very smooth leads. This is one of the best songs I’ve heard this year….because it inspires feeling w/ ease. It’s not a super technikill downtuned pit riff fest, it’s just one of those songs that is crafted to perfection from beginning to end. I feel that I have discovered a quality band well worthy of my listening time in Diabolic. They are more than sufficient as musicians, and while I have generally gotten bored in the past w/ this style of metal, that’s not happening here. Their songs are quality. The production is good and clear after you turn it up…it seems to need to go higher than average to bring the shit out but when I do it sounds crisp, clear, layered, heavily textured, and the guitar tone is ultra-crunch. This is a professional band breathing new life into what I feel has been a degenerating genre. I fully wreckommend this.

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Diabolic

Infinity Through Purification

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