Daath’s ‘07 record, The Hinderers, was apparently supposed to revolutionize metal as we know it (or something) but that hyperbole was, of course, all hype: I caught the band live on that tour and felt mostly apathetic about the group’s sound, as did those who partook with me. Enter latest Daath effort The Concealers, and everything has changed for the collective and its now impressively coherent sound: from the opening strains of the killer ‘Sharpen The Blades’, The Concealers is a record that mines death-thrash and mines it well, Daath unafraid to write a stark, fast riff or high-flying solos, much to the group’s newfound advantage. Staying decisive the entire record through, Daath smashes and dashes with these highly listenable songs and you’ve got a good five tracks that are going to go over really well in concert contained herein. Though hardly the avant-garde force some would have had us believe, Daath has no doubt played a surprisingly strong game this time around.
