Death metallers In-Defilade are unleashing their new breathtaking maelstrom of a second album, Elude. This album delivers sheer, heart-shaking power from the first note to the last. As the music moves through an array of moods and tempos, from the insidious slithering dread of ‘The Collapse’ to the tumultuous torrent of riffs and indefatigable blast beat assaults of ‘Fearing The Worst’, you can only listen in awe. A sense of supreme confidence radiates from these songs, an unshakeable self knowledge that In-Defilade stand tall, subservient to none.
In-Defilade was first created by Jon Vesano, the man whose mighty bass and vocal roar can be heard on Nile’s revered Annihilation Of The Wicked and In Their Darkened Shrines albums and who fronted the dark, underground treasure of Dark Moon. For the first In-Defilade album, Rulers Of Famine, Vesano was joined by Vesperian Sorrow’s Subverseraph and guitarist Shawn Lee Bozarth – known for his work with legendary thrash outfits Defiance and Ulysses Siren. Before work commenced on Elude Bozarth stood down from the ranks, but Vesano and Subverseraph ensnared drum master Erik Schultek (ex-Narcotic Wasteland) and the resulting chemistry is terrifying in its potency.
Vesano’s vocals have never sounded as venomous as they do on Elude, blending brutality with a biting clarity as he enunciates his disdain for the weakness of humanity. The thunderous barrage of the rhythm section is soul-shaking, overwhelming, intimidating in its sheer unfathomable power and the riffs are a firestorm that fuses complexity with immediacy, a nuclear explosion of bewildering velocity, yet rife with barbed, inescapable hooks. Adding still further to the fearsome weaponry at In-Defilade’s disposal on this titanic album are two very special guests… Dallas Toler-Wade, an essential element of the Nile sound for twenty years, brings the howling chaos of his guitar solos, while Neska of After Life and Unbreath adds her voice of unbridled fury.
In-Defilade are coming and you have a choice to make – ride the storm with them, or be torn asunder as it passes over you. Elude is death metal of inhuman power and it will not be denied.
