Band: Defeated Sanity
Title: Chapters Of Repugnance
Label: Hammerheart Records / Willowtip
Distribution: Hammerheart Records / Willowtip
Release date: February 7th 2011
Review: CD

Defeated Sanity’s history goes back to the first half of the nineties. The band was formed with e.g. drummer Lille Gruber (you might remember his name from his session or guest assistance to, for example, Turkish Cenotaph, Sinners Bleed or Belphegor) – he’s the only original member in the band. Lots of line-up changes (Christian Münzner of Obscura / Necrophagist / Majesty / Spawn Of Possession-fame used to be in the band for a couple of years; the same goes for Morbovia’s Markus Keller or Jens Staschel from Sinners Bleed) made it difficult to record proper and decent material. There are a handful of splits and promos – yet it wasn’t until 2004 before the official full length got released. This debut, which calls Prelude To The Tragedy, got released through Grindethic, the very same label that released the band’s sophomore release as well, Psalm Of The Moribund (2007). And in 2010 there were three releases: a new studio album (Chapters Of Repugnance) and a compilation (Collected Demolition), as well as another split (a four-way split with e.g. Splattered Orgasm).
That new full album, Chapters …, gets re-issued right now. It was recorded with singer A.J. Magana (of Deprecated- and Disgorge–fame), who left Defeated Sanity in mean time (he’s got replaced by Konstantin Lühring, formerly known from sweetfully brutal acts like Gallery Of Darkness, Resection, Funeral Procession or Despondency) and lasts for only thirty two minutes.
Chapters Of Repugnance opens with a very technical and instrumental Death-song, called Introitus, before adding deep growls and guttural screams as from Consumed By Repugnance. It blasts, then it slows down, it explodes again, and so on. And then, suddenly, that spastic Jazz-inspired intermezzo in between the ugliest form of grindingness. Isn’t that sweet? This anti-p(l)eaceful attitude overrules the whole album. All compositions are built on neck-breaking, psychotic riffs and tempos, interspersed with the most unusual breaks and hooks, jazzy intermezzos, tremolo madness, high-speed resolutions, slow Doom-Grind elements, and influences from technically performed Blast-Death Metal and Grinding USDM. The slam-beating sound is rather atonal, yet with somewhat repetitive rhythms in mind, the groovy approach, with its jazzy interludes, is just fine.
For fans of: Cryptopsy, Nile, Requiem Aeternam, Forgotten Silence, Atheist, Disgorge, Hour Of Penance, Suffocation etc.

77/100

Ivan Tibos.