The occult death metal band Deadspeak was formed in 2008 in Ireland, where its two Polish co-founders (Krakus and Tomasz Prokop) were then living. They recorded a pair of demos in 2008 and 2010, but then the band seemed to disappear for a long time.
Yet after returning to Poland the creative embers caught fire again and just last year Deadspeak released an excellent debut album named Human Alchemy (available here), a 44-minute work that they have described as “a blizzard of obscure riffs and strange melodies, fueled by hypersensitivity to society”.
Striking while the iron is hot, Deadspeak are already following up that album with a two-song EP that we’re happily premiering today. For these recordings, the Deadspeak duo of adventurous guitarist Krakus and venomous vocalist Tomasz were joined by guest bassist Ataman Tolovy and, as session drummer, the veteran hitter James Stewart (Decapitated, Berserker Legion, Bloodshot Dawn, ex-Vader, etc.).
The new EP consists of two maniacal songs. The first of those is the title track, “NO RESPECT… neither for living nor for the dead“.
In this first song Deadspeak immediately assault the listener with a barrage of hammering drums, hurtling bass-lines, dense scathing riffage, enraged imperious gutturals, and an eerily squirming lead guitar.
As the song progresses, the elaborately layered guitar work moans, writhes, and jubilantly darts, and fret-melting solos add to the track’s crazed and supernatural atmosphere. It’s the kind of song that will cause you to want to hear it again before moving on, to try to better comprehend what has just happened.
When you do move on, you’ll come to the second track, “Soul-o-suction“. It opens with an electrifying heavy metal riff that sounds like a brazen fanfare. It continues gloriously blaring as the drums and bass begin thundering, the lead guitar starts quivering, and those ferocious vocals bark and snarl the words.
You’ll also soon encounter another riff that’s thoroughly diabolical in its mood, backed by gut-slugging grooves and skull-cracking beats.
This second song is, if anything, even more head-spinning and exhilarating than the first track, with tempos and rhythmic patterns that turn on a dime, flurries of bizarre but also engaging fretwork contortions (which paradoxically get stuck in the head). But you’ll also encounter some highly headbang-able chugging and jackhammering too.
Taken together, the two songs merit the band’s description of their music as “Occult death heavy metal”. Together with last year’s debut album, they mark Deadspeak as a band to watch closely.
The new EP will be released by Monomaniax Prod. on MC (100 copies), CD with poster (500 copies), and digitally. For more info, check the links below.
https://deadspeak666pl.bandcamp.com/
http://deadspeak.cba.pl/
https://www.facebook.com/Deadspeak666
https://www.instagram.com/deadspeak_band