Powerful underground entity Cimmerian Shade Recordings have signed some excellent acts of late and one among them is avant-garde band Solinaris, playing death metal with saxophone as an extra instrument. As if the music wasn't fascinating enough, the usage of saxophone adds a new dimension to the already refreshing death metal music that's on offer here. There's a lot happening on this record about a serial killer and the music perfectly captures the eccentricities, whims and audacious quality of it all. Death metal has been brilliantly contorted before by their peers in Gorguts, Cryptopsy, Augury and Neuraxis, but never in this style. It's time for a new revolution in the sub-genre and clearly Solinaris are leading with fantastic and innovative ideas on making it a reality. Have a peek into the future where death metal is as complex as urban life, with myriad possibilities and challenges, a parallel conflicting dimension of life, and an unrestrained level of progressive thinking. 'Deranged' is a masterful album with a stunning new vision, ambition and expression. -Transcending Obscurity