Let me start off this review by saying how well overdue it is, I was contacted about this review sometime in 2007, but as regular readers of the site will know, there hasn’t really been this much in the way of updates in many months. And I would like to say sorry to the band, they seem to be a hard working bunch and it must have been fucking annoying sending out a CD and getting nothing, so, apologies.
What makes how late this review is in coming even more criminal, is this is an album that I have been listening to loads since receiving it. I just haven’t had the time to give it the proper critical attention that you should give a CD when you review it!
Anyway, onto the review! Overoth hail from Northern Ireland and play thrash tinged old school death metal, and they play it damn well. So good is their performance on CD and live that they have been picked up by Rundown Records who have such bands as Cerebral Bore and Condemned on their rosters (For those no familiar with those two, no nonsense, extreme fucking metal in other words).
This CD is their second output in their short career and in my opinion, pretty much shits all over their first release “Pathway To Demise”, which is saying something as it was a damned good listen!
Choosing to walk the listener slowly into the album, the album starts off with the instrumental track “Overoth” a short song which could easily be lifted off any Obituary album. The song leads perfectly into the first “real” track on the album “Suffering of the Detained” which is a full on old school death metal assault on the senses (with, might I add, a fucking great wee solo at the end).
The production on this release is perfect for an old school sound, again I am going to have to draw a parallel with something Obituary would output. The playing is tight as fuck and the vocals are excellent.
Death Personified, in my opinion was head and shoulders above most of the local releases in 2007 and I think as a band they have surpassed even the most hopeful of fans expectations.
I don’t know what else to say about this release, if you like great death metal, then you are going to want to have “Death Personified” in your CD collection. And I should point out, this is what has been produced after being together for little over a year, I can only guess at how awesome they are going to be on their next release!