''Issue VI'' is the sixth full-length album by the

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band

Dew-Scented Dew-Scented was a German thrash and death metal band, active from 1992 to 2018. They released eight studio albums and were last signed to Metal Blade Records (Europe) and Prosthetic Records (USA/North America). Their name was inspired by the ...

. A special edition, limited to 5000 worldwide, comes with a bonus DVD, with 17 live tracks from various shows between 2002-2005, and a video clip for the song "Turn to Ash". A colored vinyl edition was released by Benihana Records.

Composition

The songs "Processing Life", "Out of the Self", and "Vortex" has been characterized as "maniacal creations" with racing rhythms of "utterly blinding speeds and almost superhuman intensity".

Reception

Eduardo Rivadavia, writing for

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, described the album as the "most frantic and no-holds-barred" neo-death metal/trash metal. Rivadavia appreciated the songs "Turn to Ash", "Bled Dry", and "In Defeat" for their "spidery melodic guitar lines". However, he had mixed feelings about the album length, pointing out that it "takes a real glutton for speed to actually sit through and digest these dangerously repetitive blasts", and Dew-Scented "far exceed dthe unofficial half-hour limit imposed on such releases by

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's form-defining '' Reign in Blood''". Rivadavia summed up his experience as "impressive enough, but truly for speed-freaks only".

Track listing

# "Processing Life" – 4:09 # "Rituals of Time" – 5:06 # "Turn to Ash" – 3:08 # "Ruins of Hope" – 4:12 # "Out of the Self" – 3:41 # "The Prison of Reason" – 4:49 # "Bled Dry" – 3:57 # "In Defeat" – 3:52 # "Never to Return" – 4:22 # "Vortex" – 4:15 # "Conceptual End" – 3:18 # "Evil Dead" (Zeke Cover) – 1:01 Bonus Tracks: # "Full-Blown Revenge" (Japanese Bonus Track) # "The Torrent" (American Bonus Track) – 4:31

Personnel

*Leffe Jensen –

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*Hendrik Bache –

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*Alexander Pahl –

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*Uwe Werning –

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References

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