Search - Banished :: Deliver Me Unto Pain

OK, but not as good as the 1st

Tom P. the Underground Navigator | Park Forest, IL USA | 07/25/2008

(3 out of 5 stars)

"The glory years of death metal could said to have been between 1989 and 1992, but it was starting in 1993 that a lot of bands stalled creatively and hence you saw a lot of them dropped from their respective labels or, in the case of Roadrunner Records, some labels jumped ship and abandoned the genre altogether.



Enter New York's Banished, who in 1992 released "The Dead Shall Inherit" (as Baphomet), an onslaught fairly typical for its time but very brutal nonetheless. The record was released via Peaceville in the UK but was thankfully picked up by Caroline for release here in the U.S.



With the decrease in popularity for this type of music, it's none too surprising then that no American label ever chose to license the 1993 follow-up "Deliver Me Unto Pain" for release in the states but it rather remained available only by import here.



Thankfully, Peaceville has rereleased both albums in digipak format and both are available for relatively cheap right here on Amazon.



"Deliver Me Unto Pain" is not a bad album but it sees the band, especially vocalist Tom Frost, perhaps trying too hard not to repeat themselves and thus comes off as a little uninspiring in spots. The vocals aren't quite as guttural as before and only on "Succumb To The Fear" does the band truly annihilate like their former selves.



Still, if you liked them as Baphomet and can't get enough of this sound, this disc is probably worth picking up, especially since the reissues aren't too expensive despite still being imports.



As a sidenote, the cover art by Tim Vigil is not the whole image, which only appeared on the limited edition "Altered Minds" 7" from 1993. I guess the sadism depicted within was considered too graphic for major release."