Name: Day of Mourning [Re-issue 2016]
Brand: Century Media (USA)
SKU: 109705466
Price: 347 USD
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Day of Mourning [Re-issue 2016]

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Album: Day of Mourning [Re-issue 2016]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Temps Changent [Vinyl Mastering 2016], Les
2)	Day of Mourning [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
3)	MVP [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
4)	All for Nothing [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
5)	Eulogy [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
1)	Made of Glass [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
2)	Black Lungs [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
3)	Diva of Disgust [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
4)	Entre Le Bien Et Le Mal [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
5)	Sleepless [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
1)	Temps Changent, Les
2)	Day of Mourning
3)	MVP
4)	All for Nothing
5)	Eulogy
6)	Made of Glass
7)	Black Lungs
8)	Diva of Disgust
9)	Entre Le Bien Et Le Mal
10)	Sleepless

Album: Day of Mourning [Re-issue 2016]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Temps Changent [Vinyl Mastering 2016], Les
2)	Day of Mourning [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
3)	MVP [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
4)	All for Nothing [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
5)	Eulogy [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
1)	Made of Glass [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
2)	Black Lungs [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
3)	Diva of Disgust [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
4)	Entre Le Bien Et Le Mal [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
5)	Sleepless [Vinyl Mastering 2016]
1)	Temps Changent, Les
2)	Day of Mourning
3)	MVP
4)	All for Nothing
5)	Eulogy
6)	Made of Glass
7)	Black Lungs
8)	Diva of Disgust
9)	Entre Le Bien Et Le Mal
10)	Sleepless

Performer Notes

Despised Icon have ties to the Quebec technical death metal scene, though they're not truly part of it. Their music has some intricate parts, but it's primarily a display of muscle-headed deathcore brutality. Their album, DAY OF MOURNING, was produced by the band's former guitarist, Yannic St-Amand, though, and he's worked with acts like Ion Dissonance, Neuraxis, and Beneath the Massacre, so he knows how to get an ultra-clean tech-death sound. Drummer Alex Pelletier sounds like a machine, whipping through ultra-complex fills and brutal, endurance-testing blastbeats with equal energy, and St-Amand gives him a full, reverby sound rather than the typewriter/practice-pad clicking still too common in extreme metal. Pelletier, in fact, is the primary reason to listen to this album, as the riffs--even when they shift briefly, tantalizingly, into dissonance--are mostly of an extremely knuckle-headed-friendly sort, downtuned and grinding like a bulldozer trying to work its way out of a golf course sand trap. Some songs, like "Eulogy," feature decent soloing, but for the most part, the guitars are there to provide a foundation for the two lead vocalists to shout and scream over. They come across like a Run-D.M.C.-style partnership, one going low and the other somewhat higher, with the entire band joining in for gang shouts at times. Within the extremely limited context of deathcore, this is a pretty good album, but "thick-necked dudes riffing and bellowing" is a genre that's offering limited rewards in 2009, so DAY OF MOURNING is best appreciated as a showcase for Alex Pelletier; it would be nice if he could find a side band more worthy of his talents.