REVIEW: DEMENCIA - THE LAST TRIP

 

DEMENCIA - THE LAST TRIP (Independent - 2000): This guys from San Nicolás, Buenos Aires, Argentina present us their new opus "The Last Trip" which has an intro and seven songs, five of them in studio and two live ones. Recorded in a four track portastudio, the tape has a fairly good sound (a lot of bands get a worse sound in professional studios). Dementia´s music is a kind of black metal style (eventhough their lyrics are not about satanism or paganism) with a lot of technical skills. So, in tracks like "When God Cried" we have melodies, breaks, tempo changes, and speed riffs. I thinkl that they also have some influences of good old tharsh metal, as I can see in the guitar riffs of Guillermo Tinarelli and Juan Pablo Gaitan. The live tracks are "The Last Trip" and "Lost in Indifference" (we have also their studio versions here) and sound stronger live than in studio (eventhough the sound quality is poor here), showing that the band shows its most energetic side to their audience. Favorite tracks: "When God cried", "The Last Trip" and "Lost in Indifference". Contact: demenciademencia@hotmail.com