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Evil Eye

by Compact Deity

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Evil Eye 03:42
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2.
Poison Blood 02:53
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3.
Fog 03:43
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4.
Gallery 04:37
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5.
Spectral Forms Approach 07:14
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6.
Knight, Death and the Devil 04:56
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7.
Thorns 04:49
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8.
Kill The Lights 03:40
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9.
Gravity 03:13
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10.
Torn 13 02:30
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about

Recorded with producer Al Sutton, Evil Eye is a topical, timely anti-war, anti-racism album of sorts.

The album opens with the title track, Evil Eye, an ironic lament for the brutally maligned Arab world in spite of the evil eye good luck charm commonly found in Middle Eastern households.
Poison Blood and Fog follow and make for a highly spirited grand rock opening replete with great choruses, brilliant guitar riffery and heavy-hitting, in-the-pocket rock groove drumming by Paul Chisholm.

The album only echoes the baritone darkness of the first on a single track entitled 'Gallery' which still nicely displays the band's significant post punk flair.

The skies grow swiftly dark for the chilling epic 'Spectral Forms Approach' in which the condemned 'scoundrel kings' are engulfed and dragged into the abyss by dark spirits following a haunting epitaph which mocks their mortality. A thunderous sound like the closing of a gate punctuates the song's close.

Compact Deity continues to flaunt historical, literary, and artistic scholarship in songs like 'Knight, Death and the Devil', a marvelously composed ode to Albrecht Dürer's masterpiece. Again, the theatrics of the visuals produced by the swelling of this piece into a full, desperate gallop to the end is nothing short of inspired.

The metallic pounding of the anti-drug song 'Thorns' is followed by 'Kill the Lights' whose anvil strikes and vintage European air raid siren wailings reinforce the images of homes waiting in darkness as a threat of war passes overhead.
It equates these shadows to all things of human design and points to the shadows waiting within the world we've built.

Evil Eye wraps up with 'Gravity' and 'Torn 13', two breakneck paced songs revealing Compact Deity's hard-core punk element with inhumanly fast guitar solos and a disdain for the establishment.

It is, again, testament to this band's original mission statement to experiment freely and evolve without taking anything but an abiding love for sincere, original music under consideration.

Evil Eye, like Trancemantra, is still an album of variety, yet clearly more refined and acutely sharpened in all the right places.

(Taken from this release's CDBaby page)

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released August 2, 2011

Recorded at Rustbelt Studios in Royal Oak, Michigan, U.S.A.
rustbeltstudios.com

Produced, engineered and mixed by Al Sutton
Mastered by Jim Kissling

Tarik Al-Kadhim - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, and all songwriting
Paul Chisholm - drums

Released on Sanctum Records

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Compact Deity Detroit, Michigan

Tarik Al-Kadhim - guitar & vocals

Richard Creagh - bass

Flavors of post punk. goth, industrial, and shoegaze infused in an unusual hard rocking outfit.

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