Monday, February 21, 2011

Dutch review of Time Without Light

We're sorry for the poor translation but here are some quotes from the review:
The band picks up immediately with that for which it stands: a good game of stoner / doom that continues to reverberate long time and knows how to captivate.
Stoner doom with real rock 'n roll attitude, that's a perfect description of The Deadists. (...) A relief in the genre and a nice addition to the collection.
Here is a link to the full review.

Hungarian webzine gives our EP a score of 9.3/10


Our Hungarian is a bit rusty, and the Google translation generated practically just nonsense but here is a link to the actual review.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Earthdog promotion gave our EP 9/10 in their review!

This is without a doubt one of the surprises of the year so far, original, dynamic and extremely raw but with a fair amount of metallic polish, The Deadists should establish themselves as one of the new leading lights in the Swedish stoner doom scene(...)

Read the full review at εαrτhδog ρrοmοτιοns
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Planet Fuzz reviews our last EP 8/10


Crank it up really high and these dudes will boot down every door in the whole neighbourhood!


Full review at Planet Fuzz

"Time without light" - Italian review @ Aristocrazia Webzine



Translated from Italian:
The Deadists are a swedish band. It'd be pretty limiting to define them Stoner-metal or stoner-doom, infact their sound is rich and gathers even muddier influences from people like High on Fire and Melvins, but it is characterized also by atmosphere interludes that are pretty far from the genre and leaning towords trip music.
Time without light is their second ep this year and with its almost thirty minutes it's like a shovel well slammed in your face (very good compliment in italian for heavy music)... but it's very well dosed in 5 tracks that diversify the intensity.

Since the opener song, Woven, the singer J. gives it to you straight with his imperial and angry vocality: there is gonna be a lot of headbanging! Peter and Anders' riff work travels thru the hardrock of "human stein" to the atmospheric groove of "infinite self" as if it was the simpliest thing in the world. Reminding of Pantera in some small parts.
The sound softens with Deeper within, still retaining heavyness but less tense and direct, expanding riffs in intensity and lenght, giving chance to markus' drumming to move from the almighty strenght shown in the other tracks to express great dynamics that keep high interest and tension in the track.

Chase the Giving comes to life from a monolithic bass solo by Paul, then sinks into heavy rhytms and at the end of the piece it blows the listener away with a defined tempo change!
The deadists didnt leave anything to chance, using knowledge and support from experts like Sven Jensen for production and Goran F. for mastering.
Eventho the band is very well prepared and studied a lot, infact their songs show a lot of work, they manage to express genuine sensations, which is a very positive thing and makes them a very interesting band to follow carefully in the genre.
Time without light is another important brick for the stoner scene coming from sweden, great music that is worth the money!
Original review at Aristocrazia Webzine

"Time without light" EP review @ the Sleeping Shaman Webzine


THIS IS THE SOUND!

Dark maths rule & riffs aplenty. All players become entwined in the mission. These Musicnauts are firing on all cylinders. Flying in their onslaught of your senses. This oozes professionalisim not matched by the majority of major label bands.
Please read the full review at the Sleeping Shaman Webzine!

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Review in Pest Webzine - 8/10

The Deadists come from Sweden and were formed as a band in 2001 but only managed to release 2 EPs until now, and this one I have here is the second. "Time Without Light" is a 5 tracks release totalizing almost 35 minutes of Stoner Doom Metal with strong influences from other music areas like Sludge Metal or Post-Rock. The whole is a very interesting but hard to penetrate slab of groovy music lead by heavy guitar riffs, aggressive vocals, low-tunned bass playing an important role as well and organic, complex drums work. This will fit not only in the Stoner Metal fans collections, others might like it as well.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 8/10
Link to Review at Pest Webzine.