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If you’re prone to starting your day scrolling through the reviews on Bloody-disgusting.com, you’re going to have to give local grind unit Dead Again your attention. Its ferocious full-length Occultus Lake is a gore-geared cinephile’s dream, with vocalist Cole Benoit gargling goopy references all throughout its 10 tracks.
Alien, for instance, is toasted with the virulent thrash attack “Chestburster”, whose jackhammered blast beats should power through your sternum like one of those phallic Xenomorph babies. Benoit, meanwhile, spews acid all over the track as he details the fate of the “choking, convulsing”—not to mention lunchroom-ruining—Kane. A flesh-rending southern metal groove runs through the equally blitzed “The Lament Configuration”, which riffs on the hyper-violent S&M vacation you nab yourself once figuring out Hellraiser’s erotic puzzle box.
While apt at describing torturous, inter-dimensional jizz-letting, Dead Again gets a bit too gruesome in the back half of Occultus Lake. Both the grisly, teen-flaying “Post Secondary Decapitation” and the Slumber Party Massacre–celebrating “Body Parts and Power Drills” are punctuated with pro-violence prose set outside of the fantasy realm. If, however, you’re not a fan of splatter, there’s still plenty of horror to be had via the pest-infested crust-core rage-out “Bug Hunt” or the bilious build-up behind the Satan-awaiting title track. Naturally, it’s all pretty bloody disgusting. - The Georgia Straight
It’s hard to resist points of reference that are fresh on your brain, and since I wrote an article about Howl earlier today I’m going to say that Dead Again remind me quite a bit of Howl. Comparing them to just one band would of course be a disservice — Dead Again have their own vibe going on — so I’ll add that I also hear significant hardcore influence in their music too, like, say Enabler, another recent sign-post reference. So, yeah: Dead Again sound similar to Howl + Enabler, that’s pretty close. Stream Ocultus Lake via Bandcamp: - Metalsucks.net
Dead Again are made up of members of Rotting Hills, Inhaler, Anion and Swallowed Whole, but the Vancouver metal troupe carve out their own nefarious niche on their destructive new LP, Occultus Lake.
It's a brutalizing effort full of detuned sludge ("The Sleeper Has Awakened"), multi-passaged numbers balancing gloom with scissor-beat thrash ("Occultus Lake"), and crusty, His Hero Is Gone-styled mini-blasts ("Bug Hunt"). Judging by the torturous, Cenobite-referencing lyrics of singer Cole Benoit on the devastating "The Lament Configuration," the dude enjoys curling up with a good Clive Barker book before bedtime.
You can check out the entire album below and grab it as a pay-what-you-can download on Dead Again's Bandcamp page, with tapes to follow on Apocalypse Sunrise.
- Exclaim!
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"Occultus Lake" - Full length LP
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Dead Again was formed in late 2011 in a diesel soaked dungeon by members of Anion, Rotting Hills, and Swallowed Whole with the intent of combining a devotion to riffs with their mutual love of 80's horror, sc-fi and the occult.
No scene points, no genre devotion - just a desire to create devastatingly heavy and ultimately ugly music with graphic and visual imagery interwoven into the music. Riff driven and intense, the music stands apart with an underlying foundation of heavy sludge, healthy doses of abrasive grind and ugly hardcore mixed in to create a sound that is uniquely their own.
Dead Again have recorded their first full length LP, entitled “Occultus Lake”, with famed producer/engineer Jesse Gander (Bison BC, Japandroids, White Lung) at The Hive Creative Labs in Vancouver, BC. “Occultus Lake” is currently available digitally with cassette and vinyl releases to follow in early 2013.
A dense and raging album, “Occultus Lake” combines the best of various subgenres (sludge/grind/hardcore/doom) into something unique and furious whilst building on a very visual foundation of classic horror and sci-fi literature and films, as well as the occult and dark arts.
Having played with bands such as The Great Sabatini, Head Hits Concrete, and Anion, among others, the live show that Dead Again puts forth is something not soon forgotten and they have gained notoriety for their intense performances.
Dead Again has been receiving extremely favorable press for “Occultus Lake” with features in Exclaim!, Metalsucks.net, The Georgia Straight and Brave Words and Bloody Knuckles, among various other blogs and zines.
Dead Again are currently booking shows/tours for 2013 in the US and Canada, as well as possibly Europe, to support the release of "Occultus Lake".
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