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Thursday, November 27, 2008 

Current mood:Aids
Category: Sports
File under: Low Quality Metal Demos
Recommended if you like: Low Quality Music Demos

Demo

Since Reign of Pestilence put the absolute minimum effort into the presentation of their two-song demo (they licked the stamp), it seems only fair to put our minimal effort into the review of said demo.

Here we have two songs, for a whopping five minutes of auditory vomit this band wants to call music. The brevity, coupled with the sub-demo level production job, sloppy play all around, and the utterly unprofessional CD-R in a plastic sleeve, isn't going to impress anyone. Honestly, this isn't a legitimate release by any stretch of the imagination so much as it is a young band looking for any sort of press they can get. Well, they might as well have shit in a bag and mailed it to my door, because that would have at least been worth a laugh.

This would all be forgiveable if the music was mind blowing, but it certainly isn't. The band plays metalcore that leans heavily to the metal spectrum, scraping the death metal barrel for influence. The two songs herein come off more like a series of piecemeal riffs put in random sequence rather than actual songs. To make things worse, it sounds like they settled for the first take rather than nailing the performance because the execution is incredibly sloppy.

Here's a tip guys: If you want to impress anyone (especially a reviewer that has hundreds of records come across their desk every year), record real songs at a real studio and put it in real packaging. Submit this to your local paper or some high school/college paper, but don't submit something this unprofessional for criticism on a respectable, professional website. It's a waste of everyone's time.

Hope this was the kind of press you were so desperately seeking.

-Tyler Wagnon
Delusions of Adequacy
11/18/06
www.adequacy.net

Currently listening:
AIDS and HIV Answers
Release date: 2004-12-28
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 

Current mood:Aids
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Currently listening:
The Freddie Mercury Album
By Freddie Mercury
Release date: 1993-12-14
Friday, March 21, 2008 

Current mood:Aids
REIGN OF PESTILENCE
The Birth of Failure
11-song CD The first track on this album is called, "Die Already Michael Jackson." Wow, I like this band already. I’d classify them as some kind of mix of regular metal and death metal, but the vocals are understandable and the guitar lines are really good. Plus the songs aren’t superfluously fast-paced like other death metal songs I’ve had the misfortune of hearing. The fourth track, "One-Eyed Willy’s Treasure," is a great guitar-driven song with a killer breakdown that I imagine would incite all kinds of mosh pit mayhem if/when it’s played live. I’m pretty impressed that I not only don’t hate this band, but I actually kind of like it. Kudos to Reign of Pestilence, because they’re the first death metal band that I’ve ever found to be listenable. (Emsterly)

The Noise Magazine
Boston Mass.
Issue277
December 2007
Currently watching:
Rad
Release date: 03 August, 1994