Century Media
2009
The Concealers
About This Album
As they arrive at the third album of their erratic career, change (if not outright turmoil) has been the operative word to describe the trajectory of futuristic death metal band Daath: beginning with the independent obscurity of their first album, 2004's Futility; through to being anointed for potential greatness when their second, 2007's The Hinderers, was released by the world's most powerful heavy metal label, Roadrunner; and culminating in the lateral move of having their third, 2009's The Concealers, licensed to the more metal-focused Century Media. Thing is, the latter would be no cause for concern were it not for the preceding ejection of the band's founding keyboardist, major songwriter, and primary visionary, Mike Kameron. With him goes not only the group's daringly eclectic and oftentimes very innovative use of orchestrated synths and keys behind and betwixt their vicious death metal attack, but what was arguably Daath's single most distinguishing hallmark of steeping their lyrics in the mystical teachings of the Jewish Kabbalah. In their place, the reconfigured Daath have saddled their new songs with perfectly acceptable, but ultimately formulaic heavy metal topics of generalized negativity framed in violent imagery (all of them capably growled by new vocalist Sean Farber).
Track List (try tracks 2,3,5,7 and 8)

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