Issue VI

Issue VI
Studio album by Dew-Scented
Released	June 20, 2005
Recorded	February 2005
Genre	Thrash metal, death metal
Length	45:50
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer	Dew-Scented
Dew-Scented chronology
Impact (2003) Issue VI (2005) Incinerate (2007)

Issue VI is the sixth full-length album by the German thrash metal/death metal band Dew-Scented.

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

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

Eduardo Rivadavia, writing for AllMusic, 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[ed] the unofficial half-hour limit imposed on such releases by Slayer's form-defining Reign in Blood". Rivadavia summed up his experience as "impressive enough, but truly for speed-freaks only".

Track listing

1. "Processing Life" – 4:09
2. "Rituals of Time" – 5:06
3. "Turn to Ash" – 3:08
4. "Ruins of Hope" – 4:12
5. "Out of the Self" – 3:41
6. "The Prison of Reason" – 4:49
7. "Bled Dry" – 3:57
8. "In Defeat" – 3:52
9. "Never to Return" – 4:22
10. "Vortex" – 4:15
11. "Conceptual End" – 3:18
12. "Evil Dead" (Zeke Cover) – 1:01

Bonus Tracks:

1. "Full-Blown Revenge" (Japanese Bonus Track)
2. "The Torrent" (American Bonus Track) – 4:31

Personnel

• Leffe Jensen – vocals
• Hendrik Bache – guitar
• Alexander Pahl – bass
• Uwe Werning – drums