Few bands are able to write the same album over and over and still have fans flocking to buy new material the moment it’s released. In recent years Deeds Of Flesh has become one of those bands. Their first three efforts, Gradually Melted, Trading Pieces and Inbreeding The Anthropophagi were all unique and you could tell the band was progressing and growing as musicians and songwriters. Since that time, however, the band have fallen into the trap of writing the same album year after year, starting with 1999’s Path Of The Weakening. Each release since then has just started to sound more and more like the last, and 2005’s Crown Of Souls is no different. This is essentially the same album they released two years ago, and the one they released two years before that. Deeds Of Flesh have become the technical brutal death metal version of Bolt Thrower, and, to be honest, I’m okay with that. Crown Of Souls is exactly what a fan of Deeds Of Flesh wants to hear; it’s heavy, aggressive, technical and catchy brutal death metal that’ll make your teeth shake and your bowels rumble. Throughout the album you’ll find yourself feeling deja-vu with every track, as every single song has something you’ve heard from them before. I have to admit I’m a little disappointed by the lack of creative or progressive songwriting, but the music is still as heavy, fast, and fucking brutal as it ever was. As I’ve said several times in the past; Deeds Of Flesh is either a band you love or hate, if you love their earlier material, you’ll be banging your nuts off to Crown Of Souls, if you hate their earlier stuff, you’ll be bitching and whining like an elitist Star Wars geek at a Star Trek convention. Personally, I’m a fan, I dig the new "old" material, and I approve this message. Now I’m going to go the movie theatre and beat up kids in Storm Trooper costumes, everyone knows Captain Kirk would kick Darth Vader’s ass, then tapped Leia’s ass, because he’s just that kind of pimp daddy.

Written By: Teufel