You don’t speak. Not a single word. No utterance whatsoever. Not squeals or grunts or any such thing. You just listen. Silently. With patience. In awe. In amazement. You’re held at the mercy of the creator’s power. You don’t move. You just follow. diligently. With reason and accordance.Without stopping for a pause. Yes, at times you ask yourself ‘Why is this happening’? ‘Is this reality?’ or ‘Have I stepped back in time?’ And then when you’re trying to search for the answer, only two words flashes through your mind – ‘Defeated Sanity’. Irony.

Only once in this whole lifetime (from Big Bang till now), a Blue moon has been witnessed.Literally. Only once in this lifetime a more-than-classic death metal album gets released. Chapters of Repugnance. With a super tight song structure where every element falls into place like domino effect, it gives you the feeling as though you’re re-living the classic death metal era when albums like ‘And Time Begins’ or ‘Upon The Throne of Apocalypse’ ruled the roost. But then you listen closer, and soon you notice the elements that make it more than classic. The hooks, the speed, unaccounted tempo shifts and the gravity of its complexity finally makes you realize the band has come full circle in Chapters of Repugnance. Intense.

Brutality in the album is unmatched by no other album as evident in tracks like ‘Calculated Barbarity’ and ‘Lurid Assimilation’ where all the right riffs and right drum patterns assimilate together in a perfect showcase of their brutality. Zenith of their capability. Needless to say the fusion drums are used once again by Lille Grubber and this time it sounds better than it did in Psalms or Prelude. Ex-Disgorge vox AJ Magana does the perfect vocals, shrouding the album in his guttural wails that adds up greatly to the instruments. The band have however not gone overboard with their inimitable style of technicality. And that has been an intelligent choice considering the brutal patterns in the structures are best heard without much of the technical wankery.

In all ‘Chapters of Repugnance’ is the only album that can safely and proudly claim the moniker ‘Most brutal release’ it displays on it cover. And not just that. Keeping in mind about every single element that counts in calling an album ‘Death Metal’, Defeated Sanity have made a magnum opus of death metal music in Chapters of Repugnance. Keeping in mind about the very fundamental essence of death metal, Defeated Sanity have set the bar high for other bands to follow. However I don’t expect that to be broken in quite a long time. Like I said before, such things don’t occur often, it happens once in a blue moon. And the next blue moon is pretty far away in the future, till then you have Chapters of Repugnance.

Review by Souvik Roy. Defeated Sanity – Chapters of Repugnance has been cross posted here.