Detached from Life

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Band Name Mr Death
Album Name Detached from Life
Type Album
Released date 31 October 2009
Produced by Tomas Skogsberg
Music StyleDeath Metal
Members owning this album11

Tracklist

1. Suffer 03:26
2. Fin 03:36
3. A Dying God 02:49
4. Evil Undisputed 02:44
5. Muse of Chaos 01:58
6. Combined Anatomy 03:40
7. Misery's Womb 02:33
8. Denied the Will to Live 02:31
9. Death vs. the Living Dead 02:24
10. The Storm 03:15
11. Black Blood 02:35
Total playing time 31:31

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Mr Death


Review @ GandhiEgo

30 November 2009
I must confess that I had other reviews to write before even thinking about reviewing Mr. Death’s Detached from Life. But then again, writing reviews is a lot about feelings and motivation. Some stuff you receive, you do because you have to, others because you want to.

Mr. Death falls into the latter category.

I must say I wasn’t particularly enthralled by Agonia Records’ description. Using too many dithyrambic words usually makes me cautious and one word usually pops up in my head: Marketing. Citing Detached from Life as one of the best ever recorded albums for the last 20 years is a bold statement. Well… they’re freaking right.

Built up around ex-members of Tiamat and former Swedish old-school glory Treblinka, Mr. Death plays Death Metal. I won’t add the usual mile-long epithets like Brutal, Technical and what not. Mr. Death plays Death Metal. And that’s a perfectly fitting description.

Produced by the mighty mighty Tomas Skogsberg at the mighty mighty Sunlight Studios, Detached from Life offers everything you’d wish to have featured on only one record album.

The production is indeed brilliant. Though in the first half of the 90’s, I was growing a bit tired of records coming from what seemed at the time a mere music plant: Sunlight Studios. Every goddamn Swedish band ended up sounding just the same based on Entombed’s Left Hand Path’s footprint. Though I’d never deny the qualities of albums like Dark Recollections, Like An Ever Flowing Fondlecorpse or Into The Grave, one must admit that some of these releases “made in Sweden” bore too many similarities between each other. Here with Detached from Life, a more mature and certainly more experienced Skogsberg gives each and every song their own respective personality. Sure it’s Swedish Death Metal, let there be no doubt about it. But besides the obvious, you can tell that all the tracks have a life of their own and while the whole result is homogeneous, you will find yourself immersed in various worlds.

The music is both catchy and groovy and has a distinct raw feel very reminiscent of past productions like Master’s eponymous album or something close to Entombed’s Wolverine Blues except it’s not as Death n’ Roll. Jocke’s vocals are quite intelligible but do not expect or fear clean vocals. It’s raw as fuck and you’ll find yourself with the irrepressible need to “sing” along one of the many catchy choruses like the ones featured on Combined Anatomy or Suffer.

At times, the music will display riffing very much similar to Carcass’ Symphonies Of Sickness, which in my book, is never ever a bad thing. This is also quite a nice plus considering the lyrical contents of the records mainly deal with Death, the Dead and the Living-Dead (in no particular order!). This also compliments the graphical content used on the album and I could have sworn that by the cover only it was yet another Razorback Records release. And that is more credit to Agonia Records. Not only have they signed a band that will soon make a name for itself but they’ve acknowledged the fact that plain and catchy Death Metal is the way it’s supposed to be made and that you don’t need to play either too technical prog-like stuff or too regressive occult shit to deliver a mind-blowing record.

I’m very pleased to see that this trend of playing Death Metal that knows where it came from but yet incorporates modern production is now catching up with the two aforementioned genres. Together with bands like Fondlecorpse, Corpus Mortale or Vicious Art, Mr. Death is a rising new star that will likely shine for years to come. To ignore such an album would be a serious mistake. Don’t make it.


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