Joint Depression - Savage Infinity
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Published March 07 2007
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*=Staff's pick
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Savage Infinity
Lacerate*
When Brains Fall Over
Down On Your Knees
The Night
Going To Come
KS 3.7 The Legend*
Perfect Scythe*
Second Fall
Passion And Desire
One Of Yours
Another Infinity
??????*
Dance For Death
Frigidi*
Love By Goodbye
Didn't Had To Know
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Genre |
Melancholic Depression Metal |
Antti Karhu
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Vocals
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Tracks |
17 |
Antti Karhu
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Guitar
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Runningtime |
69 Min. |
Sami Räisänen
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Guitar
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Kimmo Kuoppamaa
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Bass
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Release |
19 Feb. 2007 |
Panu Räisänen
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Drums
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Country |
Finland |
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Keyboard
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Similar artists |
Tool, Amorphis |
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Joint Depression is a Finnish band that has been around
since the early nineties and have done a bunch of demos, and now even
a DVD is one the way. Not bad for a bad that do it all themselves and
whose main idea is to compose melancholic depression metal music. Despite
the genre description, this doesn't depress me the least, actually I
find this to be very intriguing and, well, not up lifting but captivating
at least.
The music from Joint Depression is dark, suggestive and
melancholia seems to be what they are feeding of. It is highly competent
technical and progressive metal the band deliver and I would commit
a crime as a reviewer if I wouldn't draw any parallels to Tool. The
American band is inevitably the biggest source of inspiration for the
Finnish guys. At many times the melodies are in likeness with Tool,
those that are of the kind that come lurking on you. The similarities
are also in the structures of the songs, meaning that they are slowly
building up the tension. KS 3.7 The Legend, which is one of the better
songs on Savage Infinity, somewhat shows a good example of that.
Along with the Tool vibes you can also find traces of
grunge in their sound as well. Going To Come has with the chorus some
clear resemblances even if there are other elements of contemporary
metal to find there as well. Even though I am not overly familiar with
the bands Amorphis and Sentenced, I would like to say that there are
some similarities to find there too, at least in Perfect Scythe that
is more metal oriented and with the melancholic melody-lines, it comes
out as the Finnish metal from the previously mentioned bands.
Joint Depression bring on more of the aggression at times
as well, the songs can be pending from calm to chaotic within the blink
of an eye even if they never let the aggression fully take over. Savage
Infinity is in general performed with the necessary tightness from the
band that shows the skill of mature and complex song writing. I especially
like how they make several melody-lines intertwine with each other from
the bass and the two guitars at times, something that I would to see
them do more of. Although, there are some objections I must hold against
them though. The Tool influences can be too much at times, or too obvious
is perhaps a better word. Moreover, even if the style differs a bit
between the songs, seventeen of them are too many, as they do not diverse
enough from each other to justify that many, it becomes too much of
the same in the end. But on the other hand, if you are an unsigned band
shopping for a deal it is good to show what you got. However, if the
band is ever releasing a full-length album through a label I would sincerely
recommend them to shorten the album, perhaps not in length but at least
with the number of songs.
Performance
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Vocals
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