DEUS OTIOSUS — Godless (review)

DEUS OTIOSUS — Godless album cover Album · 2012 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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"Godless" is the second full-length studio album by Danish death metal act Deus Otiosus. The album was released through Deepsend Records in September 2012. It´s the successor to "Murderer" from August 2010. There have been two lineup changes since the predecessor as drummer Søren Bentsen has been replaced by Jesper Olsen and bassist Jens Nepper has been replaced by Jesper Holst.

Stylistically the material on "Godless" is a thrash infused and groove laden (not groove metal) type of old school death metal. One of the greatest assets of the band´s sound are the many organic driven groove laden drum rhythms (while I´m not sure Deus Otiosus would like to be compared to Arghoslent, they have some of the same energetic drive in their music). Thankfully it never excalates into death´n´roll or groove metal, but there´s certainly elements of both genres in the music. Deus Otiosus are too old school in their execution of the music and in their general mindset to become derailed though. There are quite few thrash metal riffs on the album and the guitar solos also smell of thrash metal, so that influence is definitely the greatest on the core death metal style on "Godless". The vocals are full-on death metal growling. A little one-dimensional in execution but they get the job done.

"Godless" features a pretty well sounding production job too, so upon conclusion this is a good quality sophomore album release from Deus Otiosus and a 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.
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