Consumed By Your Poison - Despised Icon

Canada's Despised Icon were, chronologically if not influentially, one of the pioneers of the bastardised fusion of death metal with the already malformed spin-off genre of metalcore, yet this is largely absent in their debut release. What we have instead is a dirty, angry noise of an album that's occasionally enjoyable, but mostly irritating, and never particularly engaging. These songs lack any real structure or stand-out moments, as groove riffs clash with blast beats from the drum kit and the vocals slowly spew unintelligible lyrics with minimal energy. This is certainly more death metal than metalcore, but it takes its influences from the lower end of the ...  Read the complete review