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Review Summary: Brilliant interpretation to UK Death/Doom Dea Marica is an astonishing band – kudos to Weird Truth for giving such a band a chance. Label’s stamp is needed nowadays to authenticate almost the quality of so many upcoming bands with their releases. I wouldn’t have looked into such a band otherwise. Moving on, this is a UK Doom Metal band with influences from epic Doom Metal and early My Dying Bride-era of Doom/Death Metal. The contrast is breathtaking – don’t let the clean vocals fool you, it’s adeptly done and the music has hues accentuating those parts.
What’s also tremendously admirable is the drummer’s slightly upbeat performance in a Doom Metal album – it keeps things rocking and the momentum pulsating. Dea Marica doesn’t wallow in its own self-pity and vying for attention, it carries on, carrying the burden of life, making the most out of it. It is partly comparable to the new Death/Doom sensation from Sweden, The Gardnerz, which is doing something similar although it’s more Death Metal in comparison. The vocalist growls and sings just as well, bringing to mind ‘Turn Loose the Swans’ era of My Dying Bride, sometimes Celestial Season. The riffs are incredible – Skeletons and Blind Skulls has an unforgettable riff as does Lady Greensleeves – where does the band get these tunes from? Oh so catchy and I might want to perform a lobotomy to get them out of there.
Dea Marica has come out of nowhere virtually and crafted an album with myriad influences and accents. This is needed to set itself apart from mostly the Russian kind of Death/Doom that’s doled out at an alarming rate these days, while eschewing the strictly British style, now hackneyed, and adding and composing immortal riffs using elements from all over.
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Where are these guys in the UK? Would be nice to know if anyone else came from where I am. (I just recently moved to Solihull)
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London, my friend. You can stream the whole album here and also support the band by buying official merchandise -
http://deamarica.bandcamp.com/
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good review, pos'd
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Weird question, is English your first language? I mean absolutely no offence but this looks like Google translate has had a shot and missed.
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No, English isn't my first language. Where I write from, and for (Transcending Obscurity), it's important to keep it concise, highlighting the styles (hence the capitalized initials) because I've removed the rating scale. When you're writing about tons of albums, it's not necessary any more to sit and dissect every song and style - an insightful overall idea is what I provide and hope it's good enough! Thanks for reading!
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I'm just saying most of these phrases don't make sense.
Dea Marica doesn’t wallow in its own self-pity and vying for attention,
Just one example. The and should be an or.
Brilliant interpretation to UK Death/Doom
How do you interpret "to" a genre?
It's not bad, and I can see what you're trying to do, but this gets hard to read
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Thank you for taking interest brother - I'm too old and experienced to take offense honestly, but these discussions are insightful if not stimulating. I see what you mean, but it's a different way of writing it perhaps. For example, there's more to this sentence - "Dea Marica doesn’t wallow in its own self-pity and vying for attention, it carries on, carrying the burden of life," - so, it's like human nature to vie for attention, and sometimes that makes us go on - without any audience, bands might as well stop playing. So it's kind of a twist of life in all that. The "to" I suppose refers to a contrast, a deviation from the typical Death/Doom style. 
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