▶️Morticide One With The Darkness Review◀️

▶️Morticide One With The Darkness Review◀️

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So today im doing another metal review and this one comes to us from my good friend Josh Dominus out of saratoga new york with his solo project Morticide-one with the darkness. Morticide is a thrash death metal project that josh began to work on back in 2019.

His musical influences come from a wide variety of styles which to me is quite awesome. Some of the styles he is influenced by include Nu metal, Death metal, thrash metal, deathcore and metalcore. Now this definitely makes for an interesting mix when you consider the approach he has taken on this first effort. Going solo is definitely not an easy decision for most musicians so i really respect what Josh has done here.

One thing i will mention is that Josh did all the music himself though it is programmed he is planning on getting insturments when he is able to afford them. The album centers its themes around depression, misanthropy, societal division, and self hatred. He released "one with the darkness" on march 13/2020.

So the album opens with "A taste of evil" and it begins with a really dark ambient ominous sounding passage before it breaks in with a clean guitar interlude. All of the programmed insturmentation blends well together and the mix is put together quite well here.

The track has a really hypnotic theme throughout the guitar work and drumming. Josh's vocals are decent and sound quite convicted on this track. There is a nice amount of variation going on here as well. Though i gotta say i wish it wasn't programmed. But for a first release if you have something to express and you don't have access to insturmentation then this is the next best thing. Overall this is a decent track. Emotionally it's very convincing at what its trying to get across.

Next up is One with the darkness which opens with another slow clean guitar passage with some slower paced drumming before it breaks into its metallic rage that gives it a really solid edge. This one is alot slower paced and almost has a doom like vibe to it along with the vocal style which isnt bad i wonder if he could have expanded on it more in certain ways with more, however its a decent effort for a first release like i said this isnt too bad.. I just think perhaps it might not have had all of its potential fully reached because of financial limitations which led to not having insturments. Theres just something about programmed music that isn't very appealing to me. But as i said this is decent for what he had to work with

Next up is relentless and this follows a very similar theme to the rest of the album so far and its definitely got a heavy tone to it with some very convincing emotions and intensity and im sure josh put alot of heart and soul into this and theres definitely some variation and different ideas being explored here throughout the album and i can imagine programming everything to fit so well together was likely not very easy to do and i can appreciate what is here.

Next up we have the track hatred which is a full on brutal track full of double bass drumming, fast powerful riffing and tempo changes that become quite interesting in parts with josh's vocals which give the song some pretty potent intensity and direction yet i feel as if some of this stuff might have been rushed in parts as alot of the album follows ideas from previous tracks but offers up some variation in ways... but the programming limitations of using Garageband on IOS really hurt the album alot. I can understand what he is trying to accomplish here but unfortunately alot of it falls flat due to the monotone guitars and bass... you can definitely tell that this is all programmed music for sure.