Band: Construcdead
Title: Endless Echo
Label: Black Lodge
Distribution: Suburban – Bertus – Music Shock
Release date: September 2009
Review: CD

Construcdead in fact have never been standard for any renewing element, even though their Death / Thrash Metal sounds both modern as well as old school (read: early nineties). Besides the average song quality hasn’t been but ‘average’ indeed, I’m afraid – yet that’s my personal opinion. And I’m afraid this new album won’t change my mind that easily.
Endless Echo was recorded by the line-up of Jens Broman (v), Rickard Dahlberg (g), Christian Ericson (g), Thomas Wallander (b) and Nicke Karlsson (d) at the Not Quite Studio with assistance of Darkane-members Peter Wildoer and Klas Ideberg. The album doesn’t differ that much from the former ones, meaning: guitar-driven, pounding, rhythmic and clearly Swedish-oriented Death Metal with catchy and thrashy parts, a modern, decent sound, trespassing the border with the Metalcore-scene, and a fine balance between technical performance and an energetic anger / aggression. Yet even throughout the heaviest pieces, the band achieves to inject melody and emotion without (too much) exaggeration.
At the same time ‘the band sounds like’, as well as ‘the album is highly recommended to’: Soilwork, Darkane, Terror 2000, Carnal Forge or even In Flames in a non-conformist way.

71/100

Ivan Tibos.