Tormentor Erich: These guys from Persistense are the new ones in the line of Deity Down Records bands, and this fact is worth a compliment for itself. At Deity Down they only sign bands in which they really believe, and only after seeing them live a couple of times. So it is already fair enough to say that Persistense knows how to present themselves.
Also on ‘In Blood And Heart’ these five dudes from The Netherlands make a decent impression. Songs like ‘Overcome’ and ‘Infinite Madness’ are packed with firm riffs, catchy breaks, every now and then a surprising twist and the needed aggression. These are songs that are very enjoyable to listen to and invite you to press play once more. The up whipping ‘Progress’ and the last album track and filled with a lot of variation one ‘Sick World’ show that this bands knows how to thrash.
But unfortunately not every song did the trick for me. During opener ‘Further’ I sometimes get the feeling that too many parts of the song are just glued together and the more as slower death metal sounding ‘Doomsday’ is not exciting enough. Also the rather long title track cannot hold my attention during the whole song. The production by Hans Pieters from the Excess Studio is a bit standard and maybe with some more adventure in the sound the whole album would have even made a bigger impact. Now I have every time when I listen to ‘In Blood And Heart’ the feeling that “this is good, but nothing special” and this is a pity, because maybe there was more to get out of this effort.
Conclusion: ‘In Blood And Heart’ is a decent debut album that gives Persistense enough possibilities for the future.
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