From the first track, the classic aggressive death comes through your speakers and into your face. The first thing i noticed in this cd was actually the drums. There were blast beats and double bass stressing my cones. The second thing i noticed was the lack of treble. since this is a pre-release and not the actual release, i hope they fix the slight mixing details.
This album rules! Death metal is given a good name once again with this release. The groove-ridden death with areas of blast beats and even some music innovations that make this cd a true treat to the old school death metal fans.
A couple tracks stand out to me on this album... the 3rd song i found quite interesting... with their inclusion for the first time on the cd of an off timing. it just made a nice impression on me. The fourth song i thought could almost be used as a bragging rights of inversion to put on a scandanavian sampler just so that they would be accepted (as nine times out of eight no american bands are). the fifth through tenth tracks excluding the sixth are fairly exciting new mixes of death/thrash downtuned and played good. This somehow reminded me of Gnashing of Teeth... but better. the sixth track is an altogether original track. acoustic praise song... with some behind the scenes death vocs... i found this song extremely good up until they did a fast death strumming on the acoustic and did up front vocs... i found that this point broke the feeling i got from the rest of the song.
The last... 4 songs i think are their demo... i thought that these lacked the luster of the rest of the album and sounded more like a death metal demo... however, those songs will not be available (i'm told) on the actual release.
overall, i'd say this album should be in EVERY metal head's collection. good music, good message, good album.
8.5/10
Other coverage for this album
Art for the Ears 2001Reviewed by Marco PovervestBrutal. That's the first word to come up in my brain when the first notes and beats are unleashed. Inversion from California dishes up some real extreme death metal with blast beats and deep grunts. The grunts sound like singer Jaïrus is breathing in while vocalizing rather than breathing out. It's one thing to make extreme music but the challenge is to make it digestible, not a pile of rubbish.…HM Magazine #86Reviewed by Doug Van Pelt"Scary-core" is how a friend described this to me. Nice 'n' heavy guitars, speed everywhere, deathy vocals, creative elements, and a mix of doom, black, and death metal. The Nature Of Depravity is an 18-song onslaught that will make you feel like you've been beaten for an hour (or maybe a scorched soul like that featured on the full-color picture disc). Metalheads must get this.Dead Zine 2000Reviewed by GrindboyWow! If this band's last release made them a band to look for in the future, the future is now. This cd rips! The first thing that you'll notice about Inversion are the guitars. Deep, heavy, and wonderful, the sound has come a long way from Tarsus Burning. Just listen to "Defilement" or "Blood from...", 2 tracks from their old EP that got re-recorded and put on, and they sound so much bigger with…Dead Zine 2000Reviewed by D_ListerI do fully believe that blast beats are a lost art...one with which only a few bands ever seem to revisit these days, and if so it's only in extremely short bursts and usually in just a song or two. Well hats off to Dave Campbell (Death List/Obliteration/Sickened) who steps in to handle the drum tracks of this the new Inversion album. I must admit I didn't like their first EP Tarsus Burning...at…Similar sounding releases
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