Deathbound - We Deserve Much Worse

Published March 14 2007

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Genre	Death Metal/Grindcore	Kai	Vocals
Tracks	18	Pete	Guitar
Runningtime	32 Min.	-	Guitar
Label	Dynamic Arts Records	Toni	Bass
Release	10 Jan. 2007	Sami	Drums
Country	Finland	-	Keyboard
Similar artists	Lock Up, Malevolent Creation

I wonder if there is a need for a storm warning here. I've recently received the Finnish death and grind combo Deathbound's third blaster piece titled We Deserve Much Worse, released through Dynamic Arts Records. I don't really know what the title would be about or so, I find it hard to believe that this band will receive any deep or mean criticism concerning this album.

We Deserve Much Worse holds eighteen songs of breathtaking whirlwinds that end up after thirtytwo minutes. That leaves us with the fact that the songs lengths are strictly reduced to somewhere around one and a half minute - fantastic. I will immediately throw myself into this journey of sick and twisted shape of excellent death metal. For that's what this is about, great death metal that becomes even more interesting when the "grind meter" peaks at red. The fine thing about Deathbound is that they are extremely well balanced in their song writing, many are the times that I got fooled by the idea that it's a typical Malevolent Creation arrangement in a song, to later realise that the borders to grindcore already has been broken, crushed and left behind in ashes.

We Deserve Much Worse is at many times a lesson in extreme violence, with good screams and guttural sounds from vocalist Kai that really add a raw touch to the whole sound. Good musicianship of course, and above all; good composing with interesting arrangements on both drums and strings. A vital ingredient for this kind of metal. Grindcore must have some amount of delicacy in order to feel interesting to me and the songs on this album are in my ears filled with extreme brilliance. Deathbound makes me look backwards for giants as Napalm Death and Terrorizer but what's more important is the fact that I see or hear a new dreadful dawn rising. Extremely well organized chaos.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
8	8	7	7	9

Summary
8 chalices of 10 - Tim