DEITUS
Irreversible CANDLELIGHT
London-based black metallers threaten to destroy
With their third album, London’s Deitus threaten to return danger to black metal, like so many have before them. The martially syncopated rumble of Incursion builds to a fullscale assault on the eightand-a-half-minute Straight For Your Throat. Its driven charge of buzzsaw guitar and frenetic percussion deconstructs into a hypnotic slow burn for its second half. A Scar For Serenity explodes out the gate with melodic leads ducking and diving amid permafrenzied rhythmic chop, before again slowing into ominous abstraction. It’s a dynamic that repeats. The song’s structures would benefit from keeping you guessing more as they alternate between lengthy frenzied and smouldering passages, but struggle to conjure the heretical atmospheres of their forbears. Irreversible is undeniably vehement in its delivery, and if it’s delivered with the same passion live, Deitus still stand a chance of making good on their threats. ■■■■■■■■■■