Play 90 second soundbite of 'Deigon' @ 'CD quality'
Newly augmented by female bassist, Kitty, founder members Ade (guitars, vocals) (seriously, that's gotta hurt!), Darren (guitars) and Gaz (drums) have quickly and seamlessly adapted, with Ade taking over vocal duties, and come up with this well executed six tracker EP, 'Giving Up The Ghost'. Deigon take metal to the limits but they've clearly got a softer side too as glimpsed within these six kick-ass songs. The 'dudes' can quite clearly give it out with the best of 'em and when they take it down it could another band altogether playing! And I like that in a metal outfit - that ability to run the gamut of heavy rock rather than just balling it out at max vol with lead (that's Pb by the way or appropriately here, Plumbum in Latin!) in the seat of their pants. Yes, Deigon rock and that's the truth - they rock hard and they rock long but they cleverly keep one eye on musical sensibility and commercialism.
'Giving Up The Ghost' is a pretty scary musical outing; the darkness of the genre is well executed and the tracks are aptly named in keeping with the inquisitional-esque, blood-curdling melee - tracks are, 'Deigon', 'Shades Of Faith', 'Fates End', 'Keepers Of The Grail', 'Final Conflict' and bonus track 'Melancholy Thoughts'. Dark, despair, depravity, destitute, deviant, destruction - the alliteration could carry on indefinitely but it still wouldn't totally describe the metal mayhem reeked by Deigon - they are pretty awesome!
'Giving Up The Ghost' by Deigon certainly gets the job done; it's a rich and bold statement of intent from a ballsy outfit that seem to know what they want and where they want to be. As an introduction to Deigon, 'Giving Up The Ghost' tells you everything you need to know - Deigon are full-on, running flat-out on methane or something equally vile and lookin' to spoil the party with their insensitive rockin' wares. Great band - excellent EP - look out for Deigon coz if monstrous metal is in your remit then Deigon will be right up your street.
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