Band:	Deschütz
Album:	The Last Solid Experience
Style:	Heavy metal
Release date:	2001

01. The Summoning
02. The Glory Of Caesar
03. Under A Glacial Moonlight
04. Mare Nostrum
05. Dispersion

A nice little demo I had downloaded on the net (all promo of course). Interesting thing about it is that one of the band members, don't remember who it was, contacted me back in the days when Napster existed over the send message function and told me he browsed through my files and saw that I liked metal. Then he asked me to download a song of the band called Deschütz and please give him a feedback. Short time after that Napster was closed for public downloads, but last week when I wanted to clean my hdd I found half a file of them and wondered if they might have had any success in the meantime? that did not happen but I found their whole demo as promo for download and this here is the review of it:

A wild genre mix that Deschütz, the Milano based italian band provides us with. In fact the styles change within the same song, completely different, totally weird, but really fun listening to the crazy Italians?

It is a bit hard to decide for track 1 & 2 and 4 & 5 where they end and where do they begin, because on mp3 they are each packed to one file. As far as this is true I can say 'The Summoning' works as Intro for the 'Glory Of Caesar'. Interesting but like this the intro is my favourite track. With nice mediterranean acoustic guitars, close your eyes and see the legions marching in the fields (or you could have used it as opening track for the movie Gladiator, believe me)! The choirs on it can be treated with all respect, then a short break is played and 'The Glory Of Caesar' begins, which is thrash metal with growls.
'Under A glacial Moonlight' is sung mostly in clean vocals, that change into death or black metal growls in the chorus, I hope that it's meant to be the chorus. Great solo, good riffs, interesting intro, again close your eyes and see the vikings invade Ceasars empire. Then a great lightspeed guitar-lick, very Iron Maiden.
'Mare Nostrum' begins with a very short pop-like intro, then starts of into thrash with growls, with Iron Maiden style guitar riffs and guitar bridges are big, bad & evil black/death (or maybe I'm exaggerating on this).
'Dispersion' is an outro, like 'The Summoning' a nice track with mediterranean acoustic guitars.

All songs have great guitar solos, technically brilliant and at he same time all songs suffer from slight mistakes, because there is an unimaginable plenty of changes in tempo. But you shall like it in all shades of the music. Considering the technical problems this band on the one hand might stay underground, which at the same time makes them unique and grounded. On the other hand this band has got it what it takes to make metal look fresh and young: A wild and creative mix, this is the future!
Conclusion: This band deserves a record deal!!!

Reviewed by Iron Markus