Ex Dementia ‎"Thou Shall Repulse" CD

Ex Dementia sure like Impaled and Ghoul! Isn't that precious. Certainly the first thing we needed was another band that sounded like Impaled and Ghoul. Not like that's an oversaturated style of death metal these days that everyone and their brother is jumping onto in a desperate bid for a Razorback deal and enormous retarded fanbase. I guess it's to Ex Dementia's credit that they don't manage to annoy me as much as Impaled and Ghoul do, but the fact that they sound so much like that pair sort of annoys me by proxy, so I guess this is a zero-sum game.
'Thou Shall Repulse' is firmly planted in that goofy, overtly cheerful breed of Ghoul type horror movie-worshiping death/thrash; you know, sort of overly melodic and overly catchy and lacking restraint and subtlety. Unlike Ghoul though, this is okay. Note that I say okay, I don't want to give the impression that I particularly ENDORSE this sort of music; the most generous compliment I can give this is that it doesn't manage to make me angry while I'm listening to it. On the other hand, the whole album is only about twenty minutes long anyway, so it doesn't have much of a chance to.
It's a very rockish breed of death/thrash, with verse/chorus song structures centered around melodic, thrashy riffs, high/low vocals, and punk-infused drumming. In short, it's happythrash. There's no particular darkness to this music, there's just a sort of harmless sheen of aggression that seems to shout "Awww shucks, we're just playin'" from the fucking rafters. Admittedly, the riffs are very catchy most of the time, and Ex Dementia does know how to clone the Ghoul and Impaled style of Carcass worship quite well. If you told me this was a Ghoul EP, I wouldn't bat an eye, and I get the impression that that's what Ex Dementia was going for on this. Trying to steal part of those bands' audiences, I guess.
Ex Dementia pretty much lacks any and all identity of its own and just lifts Ghoul material note for note, just minus the clever lyrics, so you can substitute any musical description necessary with that taken from a random Ghoul review. It has that 'oldschool that never actually existed' sound that everyone seems to delight in. I guess this is a mandatory purchase for anyone who digs the Impaled/Ghoul happythrash sound, but for people like me it's just tolerable and mildly distasteful, like an overaffectionate retard. It seems that this album was a total failure as far as sales go, so you're able to pick a copy up for $5 just about anywhere that metal CDs are sold these days anyway.

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Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...