Dead End Path Blind Faith

Dead End Path 'Blind Faith' (Triple B Records, 2011)

Dead End path came to me by way of the Finch/Gav record club where we periodically buy each other records that we think the other may like. Sometimes this can be successful, Cianide or Empire! Empire! (I was a Lonely Estate), and sometimes it can be less successful, Jonathan Inc. and Lymbyc Systm (both my bad, sorry Finch!).

Dead End Path represent Finch's penchant for heavy, mosh inducing hardcore. Brutal, simple and heavy is the only way to describe what Dead End Path do. The only criticism I have of 'Blind Faith' is its singular lack of originality, but when you do something as well as Dead End Path it doesn't really matter that you sound like an amalgam of 100 other bands.

The closest comparison to a band that I really know well would be to Glasgow's undisputed heavyweights By My Hands (RIP). The only thing that doesn't really achieve the callous brick wall fierceness of the west coast brutes is the vocals which could raise the severity a notch or two.

The music is a delight throughout; no nonsense fun, almost like a sorbet cleansing the pallet after listening to bands trying to be the most technical, or the fastest or the most Djent, or whatever new metallic twiddly trend has been adopted by the masses. There are no duelling At the Gates melodies and no clean vocals (bar the awful Keith Caputo impression delivered on 'Cathedral Bones' and 'Faith/Void').

'Blind Faith' is great and I'd imagine they'd be hugely violent fun to see live. Jamie would describe this as 'Risible'!

Peace