Band: Disfigured Dead
Title: Visions Of Death
Label: Hells Headbangers Records
Distribution: Hells Headbangers Records
Release date: May 1st 2010
Review: CD

Visions Of Death can be considered the ultimate tribute to the late eighties in its most deadly definition. The album opens with Beyond Darkness, breathing Autopsy (Severed Survival / Retribution For The Dead) in its purest sense. And Autopsy is an influence that appears whole the time. In the case of Disfigured Dead it isn’t just a pathetic copying, or a would-be effort, but a strong, convinced interpretation of these protagonists of gore old school Death Metal.
Other American bands that regularly come to mind are early Death (and the Mantas-era), Terrorizer (the faster parts), Repulsion, or Necrophagia, and even some Swedish bands (Entombed, Grave) might have been of influence.
These fifty one minutes of no-nonsense Death Metal (going for both musical and lyrical approach) lacks of technical experiments – which is a positive element – yet the lack of variation might bother some. And another sad con is the bad sound – I do really wonder why this hasn’t been polished up??? That’s a really pity because it does not give the whole the morbid feeling this album deserves. Old school, all right, but didn’t we enter the 21st century in mean time?

80/100

Ivan Tibos.