"Manifesto" represents the lowest plane for metal or any music to sink to, in being pandering, superficial, void of purpose and imitative of a variety of styles and trends with such bad taste it defies all human intelligence. It's hard to even describe the atrocity of DEADLOCK's compositions ranging randomly from emo grunge to hip hop (easily in the same song!), not by any means integrating primal or expressive musical features of any genres or "subcultures" but by unreasonably and irresponsibly placing sounds, beats and vocal styles on top of one another with the savagery of a madman, all with the the apparent purpose of making you notice that they can do anything you have hated on the charts for the past 10 years. It's like being cast into a special layer of Inferno created for old school metalheads and music lovers.

Often DEADLOCK comes across as a parody of commercial and pompous German metal, a mixture of the dreadful neo-progressive mallcore of KORN without its funky technicalities and the goth chick metal of NIGHTWISH but without its pleasant pop hooks and entertaining cinematic candy. The "evil man" vocals sound like he wears eyeliner to bed and the "angelic woman" vocals are his fat girlfriend who will kick the band's collective ass unless allowed to sing every chorus on the album. The track "Martyr to Science" is not a good piece of music but if you are 14 years old, hang at the mall for spiritual nourishment, have the attention span of a gerbil and offensive taste in metal, you will like it because it has a certain kind of instant hit chorus and the digitalistic "snowboarding on TV" production will tell you when to feel sad and when angry. I also hate seal slayers and animal exploiters, but moralistic pop metal pollution won't stop them. Metalheads should perform a ritualistic burning of these albums if Andrew Eldritch doesn't do it first because of the vile cover version of "Temple of Love".

- Devamitra

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