Deinonychus are a band from the Netherlands that has been featured before in this zine and plays a suicidal mixture of black and doom metal and this is a review of their 1995 album "The Silence Of December" which was re-issued in 2022 as a part of a box set called "Bleak & Vile" which was released by my Kingdom Music.
Keyboards start off the album and also mixes in with the heavier sections of the songs at times while a great portion of the tracks are also very long and epic in length. Vocals are mostly high pitched depressive black metal screams along with the slower sections of the songs also adding in elements of doom metal.
Spoken word parts can also be heard on a couple of songs while all of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them. Growls can also be heard in certain sections of the recording along with the riffs also adding in a small amount of melody at times and one of the tracks is also an instrumental.
Clean playing can also be heard in certain sections of the recording along with the faster sections of the songs also adding in a decent amount of tremolo picking and blast beats which also gives the album more of a raw feeling as well as some suicidal cries also being utilized at times, whispers can also be heard briefly and some of the tracks also add in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover Satanism, occultism, Darkness and Depression themes.
In my opinion this was another great sounding recording from Deinocychus and if you are a fan of depressive and suicidal black and doom metal, you should check out this re-issue. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "I, Ruler Of Paradise In Black" "Under the Autumn Tree" and "My Travels Through The Midnight Sky". 8/5 out of 10.
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