Depraved Priest – Depraved Priest (Album – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Industrial.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Eduardo Córdova, Rat-Singer and Marcial Maciel set up Depraved Priest. Their self-titled debut album was released last year in their homeland Mexico by Sector Industrial Producciones.
Content: The name of the band, and also the pictures and the song titles are pretty provocative. Most of the samplings reinforce this provoking attitude. Sound-wise the songs are clearly inspired by Dark-Electronics with some Industrial sound treatments on top. There are no vocals, only samplings. Some of the last songs are a little more into minimalism.
+ + + : I think we can speak about a conceptual approach, which is a bit easy and cliché and yet I like it for the provoking attitude, the Catholic religion remaining very important in the Latino culture. The songs I prefer are the aforementioned more Minimal-electro driven pieces like “Blasphemy” and “Beats Of Death”.
– – – : The production is suffering from a lack of maturity in most of the aspects. Despite the digipak format the artwork looks pretty amateuristic and so sounds the music as well. The songs are unachieved.
Conclusion: This debut album by Depraved Priest can’t convince me at any single moment. The good thing about it is that future work can be only better!
Best songs: “Beats Of Death”.
Rate: (5).
Artist: www.facebook.com/depravedpriest
Label: www.sector-industrial.com / www.facebook.com/sector.industrial.producciones
About Depraved Priest
Depraved Priest is a Mexican Dark-Electro and Industrial project formed by Eduardo Córdova, Rat-Singer and Marcial Maciel. The project’s self-titled debut album, recorded in 2019, was released on 3 July 2020 through Sector Industrial Producciones under catalog number SIP018, and later reissued digitally through Sub Culture Records.
The band went on to contribute the track “Destroying Dreams” to the label’s “Whispers Of The Future Vol. 08” compilation. The debut album reviewed here remains its first full release.
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