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# Global Domination

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## Stubs

### Dementia Senex: Heartworm

#### 31/07/13 || Pr0nogo

Boy, I sure love it when a promo’s metadata is all kinds of fucked up. Such is the case with the latest release from Italian metal outfit Dementia Senex. Let me take the time to talk about yet another thing I despise about music: the overuse of subgenres. Such actions, when merited, can be useful, but by and large it’s simply an irritant. Why, Dementia Senex, did you label yourselves as ‘experimental death metal/metalcore’? What warrants the ‘experimental’ tag? Is it the inclusion of two genres? That’s not experimental, that’s just having two genres. Dickwads.

“Heartworm”, the band’s second EP and the subject of this lovely little stub, is overall an average extreme metal release, complete with the standard overly-downtuned guitars and overprocessed production that backfires and just washes everything out. I do a bit of audio engineering for vocals and voice acting, so I understand what they were going for here, but the production amplifies the backing guitar way too much and ends up drowning out the lead guitar. I can’t accurately review something if I can’t hear it, so that’s where my discussion of the guitars end, save a simple description of the sound: it’s the typical -core chugging and some high notes here and there to act as a lead (which, again, you can’t FUCKING HEAR). The drum fills seem to serve no purpose other than having the bass pedals slam in key with the chugging, making it even louder than it was as a result of the production. Aside from that, you might hear some hat hits, but I think it was all improvisation because the drummer wanted to do more than sit around and play with his feet. Hand the poor feller a guitar or something. Maybe he’ll be better off. The vocals are an annoying composition of high screams and low growls that I’ve heard a billion times before, and don’t really offer anything to the mix beyond simply having a vocalist.

All of these factors result in “Heartworm” being completely average. And dull. And boring.

3/10: Not worth anyone’s time.

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## Audio autopsy

  Audio Autopsy - June 2014
  Audio Autopsy - May 2014
  Audio Autopsy - April 2014
  Audio Autopsy - March 2014
  Audio Autopsy - February 2014
  Audio Autopsy - January 2014
  Audio Autopsy - December 2013
  Audio Autopsy - November 2013
  Audio Autopsy - October 2013
  Audio Autopsy - September 2013
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## Reviews

  Hatebreed: The rise of brutality
  Vomiting Corpses: Coma - The spheres of innocence
  Mayhem: Esoteric warfare
  Agalloch: The serpent & the sphere
  Dark Tranquillity: Construct
  Culted: Oblique to all paths
  V/A: One and all, together, for home
  Cemetery: Enter the gate
  Ancient Ascendant: Echoes and cinder
  Dead Congregation: Promulgation of the fall
  more

## Class 6(66)

  In Flames: The jester race
  Overkill: Taking over
  Primus: Sailing the seas of cheese
  Destruction: Live without sense
  Merauder: Master killer
  Forced Entry: Uncertain future
  Evildead: Annihilation of civilization
  Flotsam And Jetsam: No place for disgrace
  Venom: Black metal
  Black Sabbath: Headless cross
  more

## Demons

  Distress Of Ruin: Predators among us
  Torchia: One
  Begrafven: Begrafven
  Children Of Madness: Howl from beyond
  Necrophor: Verbum vexillifer
  Seven Against: III
  Forlorn Chambers: Unborn and hollow
  Black Overdrive: Demo
  Told By Blood: Steamworks
  Sorkka: Ensimmäinen jae
  more

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