Revelation Album Review

This is an amazing heavy death metal album coming from a band hailing from the swamp; Palmerston North. Depths have been touring hard nationally to brand their name into the metal scene and have just ventured overseas to test the waters. They also released a mini album independently and then re-released it when they signed to Deadboy Records.

Revelation is Depths first full length album and it’s one hell of a brutal album. Thick guttural vocals with not a scent of clean vocals, that is so f****** awesome. This is modern death metal with a nod to the old school. Grinding and crunching along, this album is guaranteed to start the head jolting in submission.

Sermons of Sanctimony kicks off the album with a song that reminds me a lot of the Morbid Angel album Domination and that’s a theme that continues throughout the album as it oozes in death metal with a doom edge. You could say that in some places they lean more towards atmospherics than cranking it out at 1000 miles an hour, but in saying that, this does not affect the drumming as there are blast beats a plenty.

Illumination, the albums second track, was released earlier in the year and shot straight up the iTunes metal charts to number one and you can definitely see why. Divination has a full minute and a half of atmosphere before it cranks out an instrumental track with a meaty sludgy ending leaving you a little stunned. Don’t be concerned though because moments later we are battered again with another brutal track speeding things up again.

This album is filled with heavy as f***, solid, stonking songs that will rip your entrails out and feed them back to you. This album never lets up. With awesome production this is right up there on par with the international scene. Make sure you buy this album and go see Depths live when they tour as they will leave you bruised and beaten just like good metal should.