Disbelief - 66sick

*=Staff's pick	66 (Intro) Sick* Floating On High For God Continue From This Point Crawl* Rewind It All (Death Or Glory)* Lost In Time Try* Edges Mental Signpost To Atone Fore All

Genre	Death Metal	Karsten Jäger	Vocals
Tracks	12	Tommy Fritsch	Guitar
Runningtime	50 Min.	Olly Lenz	Guitar
Label	Nuclear Blast	Jochen Trunk	Bass
Release	14 March 2005	Kai Bergerin	Drums
Country	Germany	-	Keyboards
Similar artists	Pantera, Soilwork

Singer Karsten Jäger and guitarist Olly Lenz released their first Disbelief demo already in 1992. Since then a few line up changes and six records (including this one) have passed. With a melodic guitar and heavy drums, 66 leads us into the world of Disbelief. I like the edgy production. It enhances the rawness and aggressiveness in the music. When it comes to the growling, it is as always a matter of taste/distaste. But Karsten Jägers screams sounds very strained and painful, which becomes annoying after just a couple of songs.

Sick is the typical opening song, on record as well as live. Brutal, aggressive and with a simple chorus. It is followed by a few tracks that works, but does not specifically grasp my attention. Crawl is in the same vein as Sick and helps to alert me again. Rewind It All (Death Or Glory), with a nice blend of melody and groovy brutality, becomes the highlight of the record. Lost In Time on the other hand tends to be almost too melodic. But then the energy of Try hits you the harder. Here we also can hear some clean vocals. Edges is a slower track, but keeps up the brutality of the rest of the record. But together with industrial and instrumental Mental Signpost it brings down the tempo a bit at the end.

A quite varied collection of songs, I would say. Nothing that will change my life dramatically though.

Production	Vocals	Compositions
9	4	6

Summary
6 chalices of 10 - David