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Boasting a pitiably muffled production from which only the wonderfully spiraling bass guitar is able to escape, this earthbound zeitgeist release serves as a capable starting point for mining prospective riches, but little more. Colorado’s Angelic Deficiency touches the hem of any number of current metal trends – er, styles – without deferring wholeheartedly to any number of them. As such, one gets the subtly osmotic feeling of tech-death, melodic death, neo-thrash, deathcore, metalcore and whatever groove-laden stomp Lamb of God is plying nowadays. If it feels varied in tone, a definite plus in my books, then it also feels slightly and lamentably by-the-numbers, as if Angelic Deficiency is writing for the would-be fans, for the pits and for the A&R reps. The talent is there and every song contains nascent excellence, as if there’s a whole other part waiting to be unleashed if only it wasn’t restrained by the desire to write three-minute panderfests for slobbering, mosh-ready kiddies. Things could go either way for these lads. They could take the time to develop their songwriting and performance skills and return, invigorated, as true artistes. Or Metal Blade could sign ‘em next week, mediocrity in tow, and start pressing merch like there’s no tomorrow.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Exitium Stage Left |
| 2. To Wake The Dead |
| 3. Two Priests Walk into a Bar |
| 4. Samson 6/8 |
| 5. Leave it to Cleaver |
| 6. Immolation |
| 7. Shotgun Pogo-stick |
| 8. ...Astrology... |
| 9. Intravenous Battery Acid |
| 10. TelevanJUDA |
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