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Dark Intentions - Destined To Burn

posted by: Lucas on 22 October 2008

The guys in Dark Intentions from Breda, the Netherlands thought it was time to release a proper full length. Gerard of Deity Down Records, also from Breda, thought the same and offered them a deal. DI wrote ten songs, and recorded them under supervision of Stefan van Neerven of Born From Pain.
The result is a nice sounding record, not over-produced or over-compressed. Musically, Dark Intentions serves us a melange of metalcore (reminiscent of older BFP and the H8000 sound) and thrash metal. In the slower parts, groovy death metal powerhouses such as Obituary and Malevolent Creation come to mind, almost inducing me to bang some serious head. Especially the songs �It Dies Today� and �Where Past and Present Collide� really rock. The filter over the vocals makes me think of early nineties Entombed and Dismember, which is a good thing. But I have to be honest. Aside from these highlights, there�s nothing really thrilling about this release. There�s simply too much filler material on it. But then again, it sounds solid and not as plastic as many of their peers. So maybe these guys should give all those groups trying to mould hard music into a product as marketable as Hillary Duff some credit. They at least make Dark Intentions sound like the real thing. And because of �It Dies Today�, they even get three and a half stars.

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