Awaiting this album from The Black Wreath label Uncreation was painfully excruciating, knowing its release was imminent. I had high expectations but unlike watching a movie preview and then finding out the movie sucks, I didn’t have the same problem. The only problem was how loud I could play it before either my speakers blew up or the neighbour bashed my doors down.
The opening to The Grand Delusion features a fucking heavy guitar riff that hit me in the face like a ton of bricks. Heavy doesn’t do justice to this album… monstrous, brutal but in a cunning way… well, this is the thinking. Man’s death metal, songs written with great thought taken to construct that feature slows grinding riffs with technical elements and ferociously paced picking. Muntz and Wonky are defiantly on top of their game on this album.
You can’t pin Uncreation down in one style; The Grand Delusion has death metal elements… of course… but also featuring elements from black metal and grindcore alongside this mixing perfectly in… sludgy doom metal.
Pirate has a unique vocal style, again mixing it from the guttural, screaming to the high pitched Dani Filth vocal black metal choruses. Working his ass off, creating his own style of all these isn’t an easy job but Pirate pulls it off, no worries.
The thunderous backline of Dom on bass (listen to Transmogrify) and Rowley on drums (listen to Unspeakable Things) fill out the sound of the forthcoming apocalypse. The track The Grand Delusion is a highlight track featuring all of Uncreation’s playing ability.
I can’t begin to explain how technical the guitar work on this album is… fucking brilliant stuff! Listen to Sobeit for proof of this – one of my personal favourites on the album but with 10 tracks all having a different feel this album feels like the songs don’t copy the same mould.
The Grand Delusion has the whole package here; brilliant cover artwork which also is presented as an A3 poster that hasn’t been done in years. Another gem on this album is the hidden track which one wouldn’t expect to find one a death metal release, have a listen…
This is another brilliant release from The Black Wreath once again proving the Dead Centre is making a huge noise, proving metal is indeed a force to be reckoned with.
Uncreation: Facebook
Release Year: 2014
Label: The Black Wreath
Category: Album
Country: Australia
Reviewed by Adrian ‘Dren’ Barham
