Artist description Thrash based Extreme Metal

Music Style Heavy Metal

Group Members Frank Allain - Guitars/ Vocals Martin Bell - Guitars Mark Harrington - Bass Simon Dickens - Drums

Press Reviews Taken from "Live4Metal.com" Deviant - Broken Father (Demo) Review by Crin Skaldic Curse are no strangers to the British Black Metal Underground scene, and issuing from their guitarist Frank Allain is the baneful dark metal of Deviant. This 3 track demo kicks off with the title track firing on all cylinders in a thrashing rage of dirty guitars and snares. I was about to acclimatize myself for yet another duration of bleak, so-so back to basics Black Metal and yet as soon as the ferocity started it subsided into what the rest of the demo harnesses. Imagine the rousing mid-paced addictive melody of Enslaved blasted with Thrash. The first thing that grabs your attention is the detail given to the songs. They are geared to creating memorable riffs saturated in melodic atmosphere. The surprising warmth of the songs does not detract from the surrounding dark tones and brooding harmonies. Each verse/chorus line flows seamlessly across the two main tracks. The vocals are very much unearthly shrills and grunts and the sound very desolate, as one would expect from a band at this stage of their evolution. The music however rises above the 'heard it all before' syndrome that blights so many first time demo’s. Quality music is a rare thing and not even the signed acts we are weekly bombarded with contain a fluent consistence of quality material. Deviant, are on this offering surprisingly fresh and have the perfect start. The originality of their basic metal structuring is invigorating to hear. Let us hope they can expand on this demo. There are really only two tracks as the third is a two minute instrumental that could have been lifted from Marduks ‘Those of the Unlight.’ Contact fenfiend@hotmail.com

Location London, London - United Kingdom

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