Genre: Deathgrind
Origin: Germany
Released: 2010
Website: Depression
Label: Bloodred Horizon Records
Uploaded: 14.06.10

I’ve been a huge fan of Depression for years now, and it seems that with every release they manage to deliver the same brand of old school oozing death grind. Having done this for 20 years now, it feels like they’d have problems coming up with new material, or at least convincing material. But with every new release you hear that classic Depression sound. The same goes for Dekade(nz), but I also dare say it might be their most versatile album to date. While still retaining the simple and to the point grindcore, incorporating a flair of death metal, they also show off some very fitting doomy passages, and also some utterly gory ones. For Grave robbers robbed my grave I even get an old school hardcorepunk feeling.
After a horror-movie reeking intro we get off to a raging start with To all whom it may concern, a short and fast song. But when Grace to the world takes over I sense a melodic flair I’m not sure I’ve heard from these guys before. The guitar has a very prominent melodic lead, and I’m not sure if it’s even a keyboard you can hear in the slower, doom-like section towards the end. The four and a half minutes the song lasts does however still sound like Depression, so there’s no need to worry the guys have gone soft on you. While I don’t care much for Honesty, I actually find if to be a little cheesy, Dekade(nz) is pretty much an endless display of awesome tracks.
One of my favourite ones on here is Breathe, for the incredibly effective guitar line and great cymbal work during one of the blasting sections. Sailor is a tremendous song with marvelous mid-tempo pretty much all the way through (except for a gory doom part), and with utterly depressed lyrics and killer dual vocals. The interaction between the deep grunts and high-pitched screams is great, and is cause for a very energetic effect on the tune. But another killer track is the one to come, In death I am free; a slow, heavy and 70ies doom-like song, containing a wicked semi-psychedelic vibe and once again with seriously depressed lyrics. And as the tempo picks up and it sounds more like what we’re used to, Drown in silence is once again depressive-as-hell lyrically, and extremely effectively saddening due to the string orchestration sampled (well, I’m guessing sampled). But to ease up on the gloomy atmosphere they have a pure onslaught of blasting with lyrics about sharpening a pencil, purely and simply titled The sharpener. A varied album and bloody great as always.

Tracklist:
01. Under the pale moonlight
02. To all whom it may concern
03. Grace to the world
04. Life is…
05. The sharpener
06. Breathe
07. Grave robbers robbed my grave
08. Honesty
09. Sailor
10. In death I am free
11. Drown in silence
12. Erase the disease
13. In love
14. Depressionen part 3
15. Dekade(nz)
16. Nuestro futuro