{"id":22598,"date":"2014-09-12T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=22598"},"modified":"2014-12-14T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T15:02:08","slug":"album-review-dead-samaritan-the-devil-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-dead-samaritan-the-devil-tunes\/","title":{"rendered":"DEAD SAMARITAN – The Devil Tunes (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEAD SAMARITAN
The Devil Tunes<\/strong><\/span>
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\nBury The Casket (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Great name for a band! Dead Samaritan is an exceptional death \/ thrash metal band from Finland and I\u2019m slapping myself in the forehead continuously due to the fact I missed them first time round with their 2012 debut The Only Good Samaritan<\/em>. So this time I\u2019m making sure that I don\u2019t miss the boat and have latched onto The Devil Tunes<\/em> like a leech to skin and hungry for the contents.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a fan of old school thrash along the lines of Kreator or if more recently you were bowled over \u2013 like me \u2013 by South American thrashers Nervosa, then you\u2019re going to love this fizzing, flaming, burning wreckage of an album that is made all the more venomous by the vocal rasps and sickening sneers of one Valendis Suomalainen.<\/p>\n

This is a woman who sounds pissed off, so forget your watered down contemporary metal and climb on board this hurtling freight train because Dead Samaritan has just offered up another of 2014\u2019s best records. The band also feature axe-wielders Marko Saarinen and Matti Viholainen, who in turn are aided by bassist Eero Virtanen and drummer Janne Honkanen.<\/p>\n

What we get is 11 tracks which clock in at just over 35 minutes, but what a way to spend half-an-hour or so by banging your head violently in tune with those speeding rhythms and volatile vocal yaps. All of the tracks coughed up are relatively short and sweet, combining the raw aggression of mid-80s thrash with hints of traditional galloping, but all the while Valendis Suomalainen remains as possessed as she does you just know that tracks such as \u2018Raise A Riot\u2019, \u2018Darkness Brings The Beast\u2019, \u2018Apex Beast\u2019 and the like are going to be full of menace, all delivered with hair-raising speed and yet injected with some classy mid-tempo hooks for good, violent measure.<\/p>\n

To say I absolutely adore this album is an understatement; Dead Samaritan prolifically churning out razor sharp, metallic mayhem that begins its spitting reign with the torturous clanking of \u2018In For The Kill\u2019, showcasing Virtanen\u2019s festering bass which works in terrifying cohorts with Honkanen\u2019s lacerating dream thuds. With its menacing conjuration of a chorus, this is a fiery dose of direct metal that has no time for subtlety.<\/p>\n

Dead Samaritan serves up chunky riffage (\u2018Out With Your Feet First\u2019), demonic dashing (\u2018In The Wake Of Burning Churches\u2019) and doom-laden hammering (\u2018The Fire Of Contempt\u2019). The end product is an album being a deadly cross of infectious old school metal with death metal tinges and a thrashier main course. The Devil Tunes<\/em> pukes out hooks aplenty and sinister vocals that\u2019ll have you quaking in your shit-stained boots.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DEAD SAMARITANThe Devil Tunes Bury The Casket (2014)Rating: 9\/10 Great name for a band! Dead Samaritan is an exceptional death \/ thrash metal band from Finland and I\u2019m slapping myself in the forehead continuously due to the fact I missed them first time round with their 2012 debut The Only Good Samaritan. So this time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1517],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-dead-samaritan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22601,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22598\/revisions\/22601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}