Deviants is yet another Chilean band with Noctumbra (Javier Salgado) and Doom (Ignacio Pérez) on board. And that's absolutely great, because this duo is/was a part of such magnificent crews like Mayhemic, Hellish, Critical Defiance, Parkcrest, Sentinels to name just a few. Their new project has been founded in 2019 with the debut digital single „Fake Reality” released two years later. „Legion” EP is the next offer that hit the beginning of 2022 via Burning Coffin Records. This time also as strictly limited (50 copies worldwide) cassette edition – yeah, I'm a lucky freak as I managed to purchase one copy directly from mighty Chile.
As for musical side they do not play a complex stuff. They do not bother to fumble in something new as well. No, their approach is simple and direct: old school death / thrash in the vein of early Death (yes, there is something from their first album era: „Baptized in Blood” cover in a bit shorter version), Swedish Merciless or Possessed. At the first glance – very interesting cover art done by Bastian Velásquez is a good invitation to drown into the deviant world. After short „The Return of the Entity” intro, mentioned earlier „Fake Reality” beshivers bastions of sanity and burns down the idyll with its insane tempo and killer instinct. However my auditory canal can detect some parts of sick melodies (yea, love it here!), not only in riffs or old Swedish-like moments (listen carefully to fragment starting off from 2:28 in „The Buried Parts of the Past”), the whole is a very catchy in its own (deviant) way. As befits the standards of the past, there are guitar leads that open the entrails, fast, furious, merciless. A separate issue is bass parts – Lion's Roar Studio knows the stuff and gave it a room for parade, especially when the duo slows down and let the rhythm section demolish the kingdom of silence and serenity. And one more about vocals of Doom, for me it reminds me Chuck style the most and of course it perfectly fits the instrumental whirlwind.
It's really great that such bands still set the fire amid the pillars of the underground. Deeply rooted in the past, it delivers fascinating dose of thrashing death, even it's spontaneous, there is no place for an incompatible piece. The songs are pretty long, with tempo changes, there're marching rhythms, there're bestial assaults, no time for boredom. And only almost nineteen minutes that prove Chilean territory incessantly supplies fantastic sounds to my senses. In fine, listen to the ending thirty seconds of „Legion”! What a madness! Are they forgotten sounds from „Pleasure to Kill”? Guys, for sure it's the high time to make another move. I'm waiting... I just need deviant metal!
85/100
-Tlacaxipehualiztli
(written in August, 2025)
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