DJIN — The Era of Destruction (review)

DJIN — The Era of Destruction album cover Album · 2012 · Technical Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
siLLy puPPy
DJIN was formed in 2006 in the city of Medan which is located on the Western tip of Sumatra, Indonesia by guitarist David Salim who had an insatiable appetite for the most extreme and violent realms of the metal world citing influences from US and Canadian death metal bands such as Origin, Brain Drill, Beneath The Massacre and Anomalous as well as many others most of which featured groove-based rhythms along with erratic technical death metal bombast.

After a few lineup changes, by the time DJIN released its so far one and only album THE ERA OF DESTRUCTION, the cast included was Eric Critic on vocals, Salim on guitars, Nurdin Marja on drums and Chiko TM on bass. Although the band has only released the one near 26 minute album, DJIN has been active playing live gigs ever since with even more lineup changes (seems to be the absolute norm in this techy types of extreme metal.)

THE ERA OF DESTRUCTION may be succinct but still includes nine tracks most of which range from the 3 to 4 minute range. The incessantly bombastic and technical death metal rampage takes a few cues from grindcore brevity along with brutal death metal orotundity. While not exactly the most original album out there, DJIN nevertheless features extremely proficient musicians who absolutely nail the tech death sounds perfectly. With rampaging fast tempos and lightning fast technicalities, DJIN is in the top of the tech death league as far as motor skills are concerned.

Despite the maestro wizardry of the musicians on board though, THE ERA OF DESTRUCTION sounds like many other equally gifted bands who have mastered the tech death playbook but don’t offer more than doing just that however i’m a sucker for pummeling blastbeats, whizzing guitar solos racing at a million miles per second and a frenetic loose electrical wire performance of the vocalist. This is completely unhinged tech death at its most energetic and uncompromising and for that reason i do like this one a lot! If these guys could harness their own creative stamp on the genre, then they could be the next Nile and Indonesia is fertile with beautiful ethnic sounds to incorporate.
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siLLy puPPy wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Yeah, this was much better than i could've expected.
voila_la_scorie wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I hear the metal scene in Indonesia has become pretty strong in the last decade or so.

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