Deville

Stonerrock fans who also attended the first day of Buzzfest in November, could have a first encounter with Deville in a live situation. These grooving Swedes started in 2003 and spent some time searching for a proper sound. Facing the usual line-up changes, they improved themselves year after year. Firstly this quartet recorded a split CD with Sergej The Freak and started working on an EP as follow-up when they were signalled by the Belgian stoner label supreme Buzzville Records. The EP became a full album, titled ‘Come Heavy Sleep’. It will not go by without fuzz in the stonerrock scene! These guys just have that extra, you know.

Why? Deville does not only regale us with grooving rhythms and greasy guitar soloing, but they wrote a couple of songs that seize a person by the throat because of their emotional impact. It all begins quite stereotype with luscious guitars and ditto voice in ‘Sunset Capricorn’, but the title track ‘Come Heavy Sleep’ make you surmise that these men from Malmö have more in their march than just honouring Kyuss’s legacy. The instrumental ‘Black Dawn’ makes the house shake at its foundations. The unwieldy track is relished with fluttering guitar licks. After the fiery ‘Deserter’ and the tighter-than-your-jeans ‘Stillborn’ the real party starts. For instance ‘Earthburn’, a slow bluesy song that makes you dream away on the wings of a passionate guitar solo. Or the infectious ‘Into The Smoke’. In former times this would have been a hit for weeks in the charts!

But that is not all there is. The semi-ballad ‘Sweet Blood’ includes magnificent guitar skills and ‘Far Beyond’ does not yield to it. Melancholic guitars and sweet vocals pass into a powerful explosion of heavy guitars. A standout song! Finally they evoke great expectations with a title as ‘Rise Above’. Isn’t that the label of Lee Dorian, a standard in doom and stonerland? Well, this seven minutes long “ode” is indeed the wet dream of every stonerrock fan that is always looking for a challenging record. Deville slackens down speed from time to time in the latter part of this debut, but they do it with grace and that is why they can be seen as one of the most talented newcomers in the nowadays scene. Do purchase this, folks!


- Metal-Nose.org

Sweden’s Deville, return with their second release, after the split CD with Sergej the Freak. The new album entitled “Come heavy Sleep” and with this one, Deville provide us with 13 compositions (11 tracks plus Intro / Outro) in the classic stoner rock forms with references to bands like: Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age and of course Black Sabbath. The album flows very smoothly, without certain originalities, except the track named “Black Dawn” in which track Deville added more Psychedelic elements.
In my opinion, the “Come Heavy Sleep” album can easily be compared with the albums of bigger bands in the scene, a scene that is not known for it’s originality, rather its more groovy Sabbath – alike sound, Something that Deville does very well
“Come Heavy Sleep is an album that is made for the fans of Stoner rock genre, and I think there are many of these all over the world.
- Metalzone.gr