The crazy Swedish guys from death metal band Deranged are back with a brand new CD filled with 9 sick tunes. It has been 4 years since the last full length, so I am much obliged to dissect it on behalf of REZ.
Let me begin with that I like: the sound and the mix as a whole. It’s phat, it’s greasy, yet transparent. You can hear what every instrument is playing and in the process, my neighbours did also, because you have to take the B in “Obscenities in B-flat” (genius title!) very seriously. B as in a low B. So I rumbled the neighbours right out of bed…

Expect no original things from Deranged but they always did stand for solid grooving, grinding, filthy and brutal death metal. And this is precisely what you encounter at “Obscenities in B-flat”. However, there is enough room for some nice alterations in tempo and the occasional breaks and rhythm changes. The drumming is varied with blasted parts (but not at insane speed), polka beats and the likes. Sometimes the listener is even treated to a nice guitar solo every now and then. Personal favorites of mine are “Coven Of Death” (track 3) which, with its menacing tempo, rolls right over the listener like a steamroller, and “Body Fluids From Unknown Origin” (tracks 6) which sports a regular repeating nasty Cannibal Corpse-like riff that drags along like a pack of slowly advancing zombies.

I don’t like the effect at the beginning of “Alive Swarming With Flies” (track 7). Track 6 ends with a piano that fades out to the end. And when track 7 sets in, you hear a horrible electronic noise pulse for about 2 seconds at high volume. I nearly clung to the ceiling with almost pierced eardrums when I heard that the first time.

All-in-all, Deranged did deliver another CD with the typical Deranged sound. I like the variations they put into the songs, and because of that, this album won’t bore as quickly as a lot of other death metal releases do nowadays. “Obscenities in B-flat” is an enjoyable album for the major part of the death metal fans out there including me. And this CD will certainly find it’s way back again to my CD player.