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"Passages into Deformity" is the fourth full-length studio album by German death metal act Defeated Sanity. The album was released through Willowtip Records in February 2013. It´s the successor to "Chapters Of Repugnance" from 2010. The four-piece lineup who recorded the predecessor is intact on "Passages into Deformity".
Stylistically the material is brutal and technically well played death metal. The vocals are gutteral and completely unintelligible growling. It´s ultra brutal, meaty, and pummeling death metal, but there´s actually a bit more variation than what may initially appear when listening to the album. Defeated Sanity skillfully change pace multible times during each track, and they also make sure to incorporate little songwriting details (as an example check out the bass lines and breaks on "The Purging"), and intros and outros to tracks, to ensure that the listeners attention isn´t completely lost in the relentlessly brutal and busy soundscape.
"Passages into Deformity" features a meaty, brutal, and well sounding production job, and upon conclusion it´s a high quality brutal death metal release by Defeated Sanity, perfectly pairing brutality, technical playing, and powerful and effective songwriting (which for the genre is quite varied). Had the vocals been a bit more varied and not just a one-dimensional growling drone, "Passages into Deformity" could have deserved an even higher rating, but as it is the vocals get the job done and nothing more, and in my book a little more is needed to hit the really high marks. A 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.
