Single: DELUHI - ジャガンナータ
Track list
1. Rebel:Sicks, Shadow:Six
2. リヴィングデッド (Living Dead)
Jagannath is the last in Deluhi's highly ambitious three-month-in-a-row consecutive single release.
Unfortunately, this single kinda found itself on released on a wrong (Deluhi saturated) time, so you can look at it as the weakest single around.
Rebel:Sicks, Shadow:Six kicks in with some awesome, downtuned, fleshy riffs that sound "Aww this is awesome!" but when Juri jumps in the song with his playful rapping (read: blasphemy and plaque to every metal song) and "Let's jump around ^_^" chorus the awesomeness of the initial riffs simply gets drowned. What a waste of song and the typical DELUHI elements don't help (plus the dramatization at the end of every song is starting to irritate A LOT).
Living Dead has got this really interesting alieaneted intro in the beginning and then starts dragging with the dramatic melody and riffs similar to Yomi no yuzuri ha. Dig the alienation, don't dig the constant epic-dramatic approach every recent DELUHI song is flaired with. Oh and then there are the death growls that I loved on their first singles, but that are now so overused they're starting to annoy. Living Dead has got a good idea, but the execution is as shallow and souless that it sounds boring, unexciting and no where near chatarsic as some of their other songs. And that's a thing not even Leda's solo can save.
What this initally very, very potential bands biggest and by release, more obvious flaw is their oscillation on a brilliance-blandness thread and overuse of their, initially excellent, song elements. They're good at striking epic measures but their music seems more and more like a finely, brilliant, golden treasure box which is hollow on the inside.