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Sectioned: Purulent Reality Death Metal Paragon Records March 6th, 2010
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Review
Sectioned is a Death Metal band that is has a vibe that you would get from Death Metal acts of the early nineties. With their debut full-length effort Purulent Reality through Paragon Records, it seems that the band has taken much of the material they created together from the start of their career, and brought it to this effort. This compilation-like feel to the album definately winds up hurting Purulent Reality in the long run, but thankfully not too bad, as there is some promise here from this UK-based five piece. Right away the album starts off rocky thanks to the first two tracks. "A Lonely Grasp of Winter" is a decent enough track, but unfortunately comes off rather amateurish with some simple guitar riffs and a few change ups in the pace of the music that don't quite fit with each other. "My Love of Decay" basically follows the same pattern, causing these two tracks to give you the wrong impression of the band as a whole. It's not until you reach "Loneliest Man" that the material starts to sound a bit more matured, as if the band figured out what direction they wanted to go with and how told kind of mold the sounds that are portrayed in the first two song into cohesive working material, with exception to the "outro" track "Purulent Reality". While the concept of the song is a good idea, this track acts more as a sort of droning Death Metal concept that becomes very repetative after a while, and isn't really that enjoyable in the first place. The rest of the album is much better then the first two tracks depict. "Loneliest Man" is where the material really takes a sharp turn and becomes a bit more brutal and solid in comparison. This shorter track, as well as "Mirrors" really show what the band is capable of through some catchy songs that are heavy and make you want to punch your fist into the wall, as well as in the air. This, however, leads to a problem with the longer tracks, as the material here works best as shorter songs. The longer tracks, like "A Lonely Grasp of Winter" and "Behind My Eyes", can really start to be repetative after a while and seem to almost drag on for no reason. At first the production quality may seem to be the reason why the album doesn't sound too entertaining, but these tracks also show that this somewhat raw quality does do well with the music, even though it could have been a little better to keep the album feeling more professional. The big perk about the production job on here is the emphasis on the bass being loud enough that it could be heard, and works very well with the guitars to give the music that little extra kick. This is at it's best during the slower paced solo of the track "Village of the Sun" since there's more emphasis on the bass thanks to the guitars doing some sort of atmospheric thing by generating noise from the chords played instead of an actual solo. Sadly, Purulent Reality is not that great a release, showing off both a very creative side that can create some really heavy music that Death Metal fans will enjoy listening to, as well as a rather amateurish side with songs that won't hold your attention past the first one or two spins. There's some promise for the band when you manage to get to "Loneliest Man", all the way up to the track "Village of the Sun", but four tracks on here that won't make you want to shelve this CD is not a good start for the band. Hopefully the group gets their act together and puts out a more professional release with a slightly better production job, while keeping the emphasis that was put on the bass for this release, as it's clear from some of the material here that a thoroughly enjoyable album can be brought out by this group.
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