With a title like this, it is not hard to guess that we are dealing here with a first demo by a new band. Indeed, the Canadian Death Metal trio Pestis presents their first music with this demo, self-released on cassette tape in 64 copies.
Musically it is not very innovative or uplifting what is this three-piece is presenting on this very short demo tape (total playing time of 6:46). Pestis offers their Old School Death Metal entirely in the proper tradition of the current rosters of Me Saco Un Ojo Records and Dark Descent Records. You get it all: slightly technical riffs, deep vocals and a very solid production. You could even call it a bit standard by now.
But is that a bad thing? Hell no! When a musical concept is well executed, and we can definitely talk about that here, it does not matter if it is extremely original or, on the very contrary, something we have heard many times before. The three short tracks on ‘Demo I 2023’ definitely taste like more and I assume that the gentlemen of Me Saco Un Ojo Records and Dark Descent Records are reading along…
