Driving guitar force pushes and pulls sounds from your ears at mid to high speed rates with rapid riff changes. While quite distorted it propogates quite a clear melody. Enticing and alluring, the fluctuating flow of the sound, accentuated by a very skillful bass track, keeps your attention and makes it tough to turn it off. Unfortunately on first listen, it's difficult to see the "beauty" in this album and it comes across as being rather boring death metal. I'm not quite sure why that is, but at some point driving around in my car - probably the fifth listen to the CD - it just clicked.
Quite active on the drums, Pike brings to life the tempo and often somewhat weird time signatures. Not wanting to be left in the shadows he at times even manages to accompany the lead rather than just holding down the beat.
Some work needs to be done on the transitions however - they are often either lost in the mix or simply nonexistant. There is however quite a lot of quality death metal here, mixed alongside with a lot of standard death metal. Nonetheless Dementor has some very unique approaches to the music and "Kill The Thought Of Christ" comes across as a very good recording.
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