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Check out this great “Axiom” video review by JGCSOUND!

“Axiom” ranked #67 for 2011 @ rateyourmusic.com

http://rateyourmusic.com/​release/ep/dephosphorus/axiom/

The fuck is this? Well, it’s creative as hell, is what it is. I’ve rewritten my assessment of its genre three times now, so I’m just going to leave it. Suffice it to say that all the tags for it are correct to varying degrees.

The whole thing basically starts with a sort of semi-melodic sense of black metal and devolves from there, but then you get powerchord/D-beat “breaks” and three-note-bashing phrases that recall early primal BM in Bathory’s style; it’ll roar from something approximating crust into eerie minor chords without so much as a stop-and-start, with transitions so unbelievably fluid you don’t even notice the shift of styles most of the time. Riffs all over the place, big sweeping chords, aggressive breaks, and early-Disfear-esque vocals, and I am extremely fucking impressed.

Where the hell did this even come from? Seriously, with just seven tracks these guys made it into my favourites. Can’t wait for newer releases.

 

 

“Axiom” #16 @ Intervalo Banger’s (BR) top 30

http://intervalobanger.tumblr.com/tagged/top-30-2011

Astrogrind helenístico e/ou do bom português, música pra matar barata só no blast chinelada.

Axiom tem uma produção suja, quase necro pro estilo. É quase uma versão grind do Dead Congregation. Puta disco!

Destaque: Continuum

Harmonização: Caso você pretenda ir a outras galáxias, leve este disco na nave.

Rockap.gr’s top albums for 2011

This list is in alphabetical order:

http://www.rockap.gr/?p=10581

“Axiom” #5 @ Grind&Punishment’s 2011 top 20!

http://grindandpunishment.blogspot.com/2011/12/grind-in-rewind-2011-20-of-11.html

Nothing prepared for me for the journey Greek grindonauts Dephosphorus had planned with debut mini-album Axiom. Nothing excites me more than to stumble across a never before heard of band that totally kicks my ass, and I’m still walking around with a bruised rump courtesy of Dephosphorus several months later. Easily the biggest surprise of the year, Axiom is also one of the best albums. It stitches together grind, crust, atmosphere and bits of black metal’s obsession with things unworldly; Axiom is one of the most compelling records I heard in 2011. The 12-inch gatefold put out by 7 Degrees is also ABSOLUTELY STUNNING and the best packaging to be found this year. Dephosphorus started the year as unknowns but they close it out with upcoming full length Night Sky Transform lodged at the top of my most anticipated list.

Amazing “Axiom” review in french!

Eklektik Rock, a very cool french webzine, has published an amazing review of “Axiom”. According to the  editor, “Axiom” is on top of his 2011 list and … <<<“Axiom” kills everything and in 20 minutes, Dephosphorus puts the record straight and annihilates all competition in terms of extreme metal/hardcore.>>>

http://www.eklektik-rock.com/2011/12/dephosphorus-axiom/

J’ai un peu de mal à me décider cette année pour accoucher de ma fameuse liste de fin d’année, vous savez celle qui recense « les meilleurs albums de la terre de 2011 ». Enfin la liste est à peu près faite, mais l’ordre a tendance à changer un peu tous les jours. Comment décerner ma fameuse médaille d’or du coup ? C’est qu’on a des vrais problèmes hein en cette fin d’année ?

Ce problème est désormais réglé (ouf je respire) et le fait d’écouter cet album en boucle ces derniers jours m’a bien aidé il faut le dire. Bah oui, mon album de l’année 2011 c’est cet Axiom signé par les grecs de Dephosphorus. J’ai encore du mal à croire que ce soit leur premier « album » (et en fait il s’agit d’un EP mais on s’en fout, enfin sauf que du coup il est trop court forcément !). Certes Thanos (guitariste) et Panos (chanteur) qui ont monté le groupe (rejoints après par Nikos pour gérer les affaires de batterie tout ça), ne sont pas de parfaits débutants, ayant officié auparavant dans le groupe Straighthate (que je ne connais absolument pas je dois l’admettre), mais tout de même, la performance est assez saisissante pour un groupe qui devrait bientôt tout péter dans le monde de l’underground.

Si je devais décrire leur « astrogrind », genre auto-proclamé par les grecs eux-mêmes, je le décrirais comme un mélange de grind, death, punk, hardcore et sludge avec une pincée de black (dans les quelques dissonances qu’on entend par-ci par-là). Au risque de surprendre et pour simplifier je dirais qu’Axiom, me fait penser à une copulation barbare entre Napalm Death et Impure Wilhelmina. La comparaison avec les suisses (malheureusement disparus) paraîtra peut-être étrange, mais je la revendique totalement, notamment en ce qui concerne le chant arraché de Panos qui ressemble vraiment à ce que pouvait faire Michaël sur les premiers albums de IW mais aussi quant au son de guitare (dès « Collimator » ça me saute bien aux oreilles). On n’est parfois pas non plus loin de la crasse sludge de Unearthly Trance, groupe avec lequel Dephosphorus partage d’ailleurs de réelles affinités puisque Ryan Lipynsky participe au futur album du groupe à venir… bientôt on espère (car apparemment déjà enregistré)!

Pour autant, et malgré ces quelques références, Dephosphorus réussit l’exploit d’affirmer son style dès cette première sortie, mêlant sa crasse (avec la prod qui va bien) et son barbarisme d’apparence primaires, avec un sens aigu de la petite mélodie qui tue tout et qui s’instille sournoisement en toile de fond, permettant au propos pourtant extrême de ne jamais être indigeste. Ces petites mélodies presque spatiales (d’où le « astro » – grind) font toute la différence et conjuguées à un sens de l’immédiateté punk et à des compos qui ne tirent jamais en longueur en s’embourbant dans des tempos lourds, lents et chiants (à l’inverse de UT donc), rendent les 7 titres de cetalbum absolument irrésistibles et géniales.

Axiom tue tout, et en 20 minutes, Dephosphorus met les pendules à l’heure et annihile toute la concurrence en matière de métal/hardcore extrême. On ne peut décemment que reprocher 2 choses à Dephosphorus à ce stade : un EP c’est trop court quand c’est aussi bon (ce problème sera heureusement réglé dès 2012 avec la sortie de Night Sky Transform qui aura le bon goût de contenir le double de titres), et putain (j’en profite pour faire passer le message, Panos si tu me lis) « vous faites chier à ne sortir Axiom qu’en LP et téléchargement, on veut une version CD bordel !!! ».

Je garde l’appréciation de « Chef d’Oeuvre » pour l’album à venir (ne me décevez pas les gars pitié!), mais on n’en est déjà pas loin avec Axiom…

“Axiom” @ The Living Doorway’s Best of 2011

http://thelivingdoorway.blogspot.com/2011/12/living-doorway-presents-best-of-2011.html

It’s entirely possible that Axiom was the best reader submission TLD received all year, and I believe we might have even been the very first to post it anywhere on the world wide web. An honor for us, of course, especially since just about everyone who came in contact with this blistering clusterfuck of blackened space-grind got burnt to a crisp with utter delight. Seriously. This is the audial equivalent of eating solar flares and shitting space lava.

“Axiom” @ Deaf Sparrow’s Top Ten Of 2011!

http://www.deafsparrow.com/the-best-of-2011-feature.htm

Dephosphorus crushes cocks and balls and on its way, it shits all over all the grind albums put out in 2011. Yeah, yeah, we have all heard about how good Rotten Sound’s latest album is and yeah, whatever that sounds like grindcore and was released on Relapse shall be making the rounds of all the other lists, but in our book, quality grindcore has gone through a makeover and it has come out like a strange fruit with panda bear make up. Axiom, Dephosphorus’ first is an absolute beast of blast beasts, ripped throat screams and guitars so menacing you will instinctively have to hold onto your testicles as if they were the rounded and hairy embodiment of your mommy. In a day and age when Greece is broke as fuck, we thank for the utilities service in Athens and wish that the power never goes out in the ancient city. If only so that Dephosphorus continues to make albums as cock-crushing as Axiom.

“Axiom” is CVLT Nation’s #1 GRINDCORE/ POWER VIOLENCE Release of 2011!

http://www.cvltnation.com/cvlt-nation’s-top-six-grindcore-power-violence-releases-of-2011/

So check this out…how gnarly is gnarly? Better yet. how epic awesome is epic awesome?? Well, I’m hear to tell you the sounds that DEPHOSPHORUS creates on their debut record Axiom deserve all of these accolades & then some. This band is so sick they produced their own genre called astro grind. So you are probably asking yourself, what the fuck is this? From my point of view, it’s some of the heaviest shit that I have heard lately. Basically, DEPHOSPHORUS are some demented musical scientists that have mixed the torment of black metal, the animalistic power of grindcore, the rabid angst of hardcore, the FTW attitude of punk with buckets of blackened soul to produce a record that should be on everyone’s top ten list. While listening to this album, I feel like they are drilling holes into my skull, but I don’t mind because this music is rotting joy to my demented soul. The grooves that DEPHOSPHORUS conjure up are truly astro, they are deep & otherworldly. This band is a perfect example of laying everything on the line & hiding nothing – they put every ounce of their souls into each song. The riffs that you will experience on Axiom might leave you in a state of shock or maybe with just slight brain damage. The tones that the guitars make on this album speak a language of revolution & call for the overthrow of all of the corrupt beings on planet earth. The drumming on this album sounds like an ancient army on a warpath fighting for their rights against a maggot-eating emperor! Grindcore is only the jump off for DEPHOSPHORUS – each song weaves elements of so many different genres you can’t tell where one starts & the other ends, and this blending almost leaves me speechless. What else that gets me hyped about this band is their use of eerie & bugged-out sound effects that give your thoughts a space vehicle to travel on! Vocally, the screams & growls pack a vibe of blackened rage that can’t be ignored – actually while listening to them I get an energy boost. So when you hear their tracks COLLIMATOR or ON THE VERGE OF AN OCCURRENCE, if they don’t make you feel good to be alive, you just might be dead already! Plus, DEPHOSPHORUS get props for their sick album art by Viral Graphics.