Destinity - The Inside

Published May 01 2008

*=Staff's pick	My Senseless Theory Murder Within Thing I Will Never Feel Still Remember A Thousand Falling Skies Inhuman Corrosive Report* Ready To Leave Enemy Process* Escaping Reality The Inside*

Genre	Death Metal	Mick	Vocals
Tracks	10	Zephiros	Guitar
Runningtime	46 Min.	Ponce	Guitar
Label	Lifeforce Records	David	Bass
Release	28 April 2008	Morteüs	Drums
Country	France	Morteüs	Clean vocals
Similar artists	Scarve, Hypocrisy, Bio-Mechanical

It is still not so common with French bands, and even if there are more and more coming forth, it is still kind of a rare thing. Destinity was formed in 1996 and with The Inside they deliver their fourth album, and also what I believe their first to be released outside of France.

Destinity deliver good and solid quality melodic death metal to bash out aggressions to, but it never completes any circles so to speak. It is technical death metal with a maintained melodic sense and I have no problems with namedropping Hypocrisy as a reference, not least in the track Murder Within, but it appears similarities at more times as well. At first I though it was the similarities with the clean vocals which reminds of Peter Tägtren that made me think of Hypocrisy all the time, but there is more to it.

Destinity know what they are doing and they do it really well, although it never rises above average and I find it hard to find songs that stick with me. The technical and the kind of futuristic sound brings out a similarity with the band Bio-Mechanical in my ears, and also with Fear Factory in the compact riffing, but with a much more death metal approach. However, it is with the rarely featured faster and more aggressive parts they win my attention the best, when it is almost reminiscent of classic old-school death metal.

Production-wise I have nothing to complain about, it is a bone-crushing sound with a raw edge that has been created at Hansen Studio by Jacob and Michael Hansen. Somehow Destinity appear to have a sound of their own, but nevertheless it sounds familiar, a strange equation I know, but that is the way I find it best to describe it.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
7	6	9	5	6

Summary
6 chalices of 10 - Thomas