Mass Deception – Resurrections
Mass Deception – Resurrections
Gruesome Records
Release Date: 25/07/2025
Running Time: 45 min
Review by Metalphysicist
9 /10
Netherlands-based band Mass Deception, on their new album “Resurrections”, delivers an exquisite compilation of old school Thrash Metal that makes concessions to flirt with elements of Power Metal, NWOBHM and unusual passages of melodic arrangements – a hard-to-find mixture that sounds very very well.
Mass Deception counts with experimented band members that highlights Mass Deception’s high-quality compositions influenced by (according to the press release) several bands, such as: Flotsam and Jetsam, Meliah Rage, Laaz Rockit, Nocturnus, Testament, King Diamond and Judas Priest.
Wow, that is a lot of musical references, but the songs don’t sound like a collage of obvious Metal guidance. Quite contrary, on “Resurrections”, Mass Deception came up with tight songs and quite of musical references of the above-mentioned musical soundscapes. For instance, on ‘The Road to Hell’ the powerhouse rifferama impose to the song a mix of Thrash Metal on the limit of Power Metal aligned with guitars harmonizations that reminded me Iron Maidens’s signature guitar sound.
On ‘Ruins of Deception’, Mass Deception chose carefully the guitar riffs to open mosh pits out of everywhere. The vocal lines are perfect to synthesise the band’s originality while flirting somewhere in between James Hetfield and Tom Araya but, at the same time, doesn’t sound exactly like any of them. On ‘Blue Flame of Anger’ the percussion team-members fit the song with precision on drum’s double beats and paced musical notes, so as to create a thundering like ambience for the song. Concerning the bass guitar lines, I might mention the most influential bass player of the world of Heavy Metal, Steve Harris, as a clear inspiration for bass arrangement referencing on ‘Blue Flame of Anger’.
All those sonorities musical references are compressed (not too much) with such precision which highlights all the musical passages – imposing to “Resurrections” a pleasant easy listening album for the ones who are initiated on Thrash/Power/NWOB Heavy Metal musical conductions.
Mass Deception intentions aren’t about ripping-off Heavy Metal elements in a lazy common-place way, but to fill them with contemporary touches so as to help to keep alive the basic metal music foundations.
TRACKLISTING:
01. Gain of Function
02. Selling Souls! Buying Lies!
03. Menticide
04. Metropolis
05. 1984
06. The Road of Hell Leads to Rome
07. Saturn
08. Blue Flame of Anger
09. Passenger of Time
10. V
11. Dark Matter
12. Duids Descendants
13. Reveal, Redeem & Resurrection
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