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The Great Deceiver
Terra Incognito

"What is this?" may be the question that some of you might be making at this very instant. Well, The Great Deceiver is a Swedish band from Tomas Lindberg, known for his vocal inputs in At the Gates, Lock Up and the lately disbanded The Crown. Still, this one differs quite a bit here, as it's undeniably his most engaging and contemporary endeavour, given the musical times we're currently under.

Apart from having its name forged past a King Crimson song, Tomas Lindberg delivers a sizeable blend of Hard Core, Industrial and Death Metal, with his buddies from Diabolique (the reasonably known melodious Metal band fronted by Kristian Wahlin - or Necrolord, if you will - known for embellishing the covers of numerous Black and Death Metal acts with his wonderful and unique paintings). But back to Terra Incognito (a title taken from Proust's In Search of Lost Time), this record is in essence an additional shot at reinventing the mainstream music principles, what with this so-called new wave of American Heavy Metal snatching every teenagers' focus on the actual basis of heavy music, for its own sake. It's true that there’s always been a large difference in sound made by American and European acts, but in general, the industry's chiefly engaged on substandard and ear-catchy music that'd appeal to any youngster devoid of any bit of musical culture in due course, rather than presenting the audiences worldwide the proper significance of Rock or Heavy Metal; it's really that simple. At least there are bands in America pulling the strings in this quarter, such as A Perfect Circle, God Forbid, Marilyn Manson, Strapping Young Lad or even Tool, while in Europe we have another facet with In Flames, Lock Up, Meshuggah and "now" The Great Deceiver (that just out of curiosity got this album produced by the renowned Daniel Bergstrand, with the aid of Misery Loves Company's guitarist Örjan Örnkloo, who printed a vast leap in the sound branch).
Marathon Man or The Heel on the Throat of the Young would be sufficient to make this record a frontrunner, though there are 8 more songs of torment and sourness, that'll leave you squashed by their sheer insanity of industrial accuracy; a nitty-gritty exercise in developing heavy music with edge, sense and piercing hit.

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