Inverted – Point of Crossing (2011)

Arriving all the way from Italy, today we have Inverted’s debut full-length release “Point of Crossing” strictly for old school Death Metal fans. In the 10 tracks featured on this CD, fans of the genre will find plenty of meaty riffs and powerful growls. Not reinventing the wheel or anything, Inverted does a great job in crafting songs that are both engaging and very appealing for moshpit induced craziness.

With the brutal opening track “Disgrace”, the band quickly sets the pace for a very hectic and crushing release. The riffing is very traditional and the drumming is top notch, making the vocals shine very nicely in the middle of things. The bass guitar is pretty well balanced into the mix and nicely crafted. While this is music to any DM fan ears, it is also something that has been done one million times before and Inverted does little to improve or carve their name in the genre.

Pummeling through tracks like “Apothlosys”, “Disbelief”, “Warcult”, “5.56” and “Enuma Elish”, we noticed that the band has little to offer in the creativity department. Don’t get us wrong, the music is very well executed and the songs are nicely crafted, so anybody that likes their DM brutal and well crafted (but very traditional sounding) will love this release. For us, small interesting things like the guitar work on “Enuma Elish” and other tracks is what the band should try to do more in order to not be your average band.

The record goes through the motions with “Passing Away”, “Pripyat”, “Worm” and closes with “13.0.0.0.0”. Every song clocks around 3 minutes on average like most DM songs and some of them are catchier than the rest, but not too different from each other. The closing track offers a few minutes of atmospheric droning sounds before dying off, pretty cool way of closing off a release.

We think that Inverted is not a bad band at all; they just need to add a bit more spice to their songs and deviate from their very traditional approach to the genre. The songs in “Point of Crossing” are indeed good, but they are lacking a bit of imagination. Inverted is a promising band that does a great job in crafting well structured songs, but we would love to see how they grow in the future into a more ‘original’ band.

Release: 2011

Country: Italy