SHE SAID DESTROY

Death Metal • Norway

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She Said Destroy is a metal band from Oslo, Norway. Their musical influences comes from noise rock, thrash, death and black metal while the lyrics affects everything from mankinds search for the meaning of life to the problem with Scandinavians moving to southern countries. Still, She Said Destroy is a serious band but without some of the pompous attitude some bands possess.

The band played at the Inferno Festival in 2005 and released their debut album, Time Like Vines, in April the following year. The band also made their mark at the first Hove Festival in 2007 alongside Hatebreed and Neurosis.

Their second album, This City Speaks In Tongues was released in November 2008 on Tabu Recordings and was met with widespread critical acclaim. The album is bubbling over with obscure references, technical intricacies and rich textures. This City Speaks In Tongues is a homage to urban darkness, to read more...

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SHE SAID DESTROY Time Like Vines album cover

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Time Like Vines
Death Metal 2006

SHE SAID DESTROY This City Speaks in Tongues album cover

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This City Speaks in Tongues
Death Metal 2008

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SHE SAID DESTROY Bleeding Fiction album cover

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Bleeding Fiction
Death Metal 2012

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SHE SAID DESTROY She Said Destroy album cover

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She Said Destroy
Death Metal 2003

SHE SAID DESTROY Armaggeddon, Anyone? album cover

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Armaggeddon, Anyone?
Death Metal 2004

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Video Clips Autumn 2003
Death Metal 2003

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SHE SAID DESTROY Bleeding Fiction

EP · 2012 · Death Metal

Time Signature

Bleeding fiction...

Genre: SSD metal

The Norwegian band She Said Destroy is often described as a death metal band, a thrash metal band, and a black metal band, while sludge metal is sometimes also brought into the picture as a genre tag. Well their style on Bleeding Fiction is not quite death metal, not quite black metal, not quite thrash metal and not quite sludge metal. Still it is a bit of all those genres, and it's all out progressive.

First off, the EP contains only one song which is well nigh 27 minutes long. With that sort of song length, there should be plenty of room for a lot of interesting things. And She Said Destroy definitely take full advantage of this, making sure that there is both plenty of variation and plenty of repetition on the EP.

Thus, the listener is taken on a journey through a landscape of strangely groovy riffs, heavy and sludgy passages, and darkly mellow atmospheric sections, and this is sprinkled with bursts of synth effects, some of which are spacey while others are more mellow. We are not dealing with overly technical music, and a lot of the progressive nature of "Bleeding Fiction" lies in the combination of very different modes of expression – some parts are strangely lush while others are bleak as hell. The vocals are harsh all the way through, but are contrasted with the softer and more fragile passages that are inserted throughout the song.

The EP is quite enjoyable, but I must say that I wish the vocals would have been a bit more varied, and I think that a singing style with more tonality to it would have contributed more melodically to the overall sound. Still, as an expressive device, the harsh vocals definitely play a role in generating the dark atmosphere that, despite the many moods expressed, is ubiquitous throughout the 27 minutes long opus.

This EP should definitely appeal to fans of sludge metal and post-metal, and any other prog fan who is interested in the darker and heavier aspects of the world of prog might also want to give Bleeding Fiction a listen.

(review originally posted at seaoftranquility.org)