The Demo Review:
Band Name: Axe of Vengeance
Demo Title: Souls of the Executed
Band Members: Louie Garza - Guitar, Steve De Leon - Guitar, Franco - Drums, Albert Morin - Vocals, Tommy Pineda - Bass
Location: Harlingen, TX

Rating: 2 Skulls

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    • Equinox's Review:
    Souls of the Executed is the third and most recent demo disc from Texas natives Axe of Vengeance. These guys play very straight-forward Death Metal, and the six songs on this CD are influenced heavily by most, if not all of the more popular DM bands of the present. Axe of Vengeance utilize all of the cliches you'd expect from a young Death Metal band still embroiled in the throes of their demo days: growled/screamed Chris Barnes-style vocals, tinny blast beats, buzzing speed picked riffs, pinch harmonics, simple song structures and sophomoric lyrics. The band uses all of these ingredients (in no particular order) to come up with a half dozen similar songs.

    There are a few moments throughout this demo in which the band shows a bit of promise, namely some of the melodic guitar riffs in the middle of "Fall of the Mutants" and the beginning of "Inner Being" with it's solid blast beats and decent overlaid riffs, but overall, there is a lot of uninspired material here, and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between one song and the next. What can I say? A demo is a demo, I know, and you have to take it for what it is. There is not much that really stands out here (except for the fact that several of the songs on the demo strangely and abruptly fade out at the end). The more I listened to this CD, the more I got the feeling that I was listening to an early Cannibal Corpse raw demo. Musically this one just sounds like everything else out there, just performed at a less professional level.
    2 out of 5

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