Another enthusiastic review of Secular Plague lastest release by Dutch blog Chaotik’s Revenge. Thanks for your time and interest!

Secular Plague is a relatively young band hailing from Paris, France. Still they allready have a cool website, a facebook page and just now they released their second record within 1 year! Talking about a motivated band. I like that, besides, they have their albums on the internet for free download. This band can’t go wrong with me anymore.

As they state on their fb and website ” Secular Plague is hardcore/punk meeting deathrock”. I had no idea a sub gerne like deathrock even existed… I had to google it, hahaha! And so you learn something new everyday!

When i listen to their record it makes me think of punk in the late 70′s in the vain of TSOL and such, but a bit more up tempo and more heavy, dark and sinister. So i guess they are right if they say that Secular Plague is hardcore/punk meeting deathrock. I dig the vibe Secular Plague spreads in their songs. The sound quality of the recordings are good and the artwork kicks ass. A keeper.

Unfortunately, it seems that the blog had some problems and the review isn’t available online anymore. So here’s a screenshot.

“Death For Sale” has been reviewed by British Goth/Deathrock DJ De’Ath.

I was contacted by the band to write a review of their second album which follows hot on the heels of their self titled album released in May 2012. Both albums are available as free download through the innovative label Zorch Factory Records. This release is not about how big your mohawk is or calling yourself deathrock/postpunk just to be trendy. This release captures the intense spark of punk and reminds me very much of great bands like Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, The Exploited with a splash of The Ramones intensity. It has to be the shortest release that I have reviewed at on 13 mins 20 secs but the tracks are still long enough to leave a dent in your head. Antiworld also had some great short tracks which is why for me they were the best Deathrock band. For me Secular Plague is very much part of the New Dark Punk sound. My favourite tracks from the album are “Age Of Kali” (which I included in my last podmix), has a hint of The Ramones in the Rhythm,”Latter Days” love the driving tribalistic drumming and “Angry & Frustrated” which ensures the album ends with a bang.
Music to Pogo and slamdance to! Love it! Move over Deathrock New Dark Punk is here!

Read the original review here: http://blackveilgothic.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/death-for-sale-secular-plague-cd-review/

New “Death For Sale” review, by French webzine Guts Of Darkness. Here is a (google) translation of the review:

For those who listened to the first album, I would simply say that ‘Death for sale’ is the complementary twin. While its predecessor focused anger on social issues, it focuses more on the animal cause (fur, bullfight …). Secular because Plague is a state of permanent war, not about catching his breath for a second, the securities are linked relentlessly short, raw, direct, unadorned. Once again, Saphire opted for brevity and speed: the series is released riffs, rhythmic bursts, the lyrics are balanced and that’s it (‘Mob Justice’, for example, has only thirty seconds). Like the first game, things did not stop there however, other compositions are less rapid in a style closer to Rudimentary Peni or Ciril and this is in my opinion that the group reveals the best . A song like ‘Latter days’ reminds me TSOL this ability to play punk rock coupled with a dark legacy of deathrock. For my part I hope that it is this axis that Saphire work in the future as bombs turbo as effective as they are, always leave me a little because my hunger is barely there be baited by agreements that the song stops without having been able to enjoy. Fortunately, as I wrote above, other longer compositions can better appreciate the writing and the final ‘Age of Kali’ to mention that he is a true tube power. I also liked ‘Sheeple life’ for key hypnotic arrangements, ‘Scapegoat’ or ‘Death for sale’ to their effectiveness typically punk. From a purely subjective point of view, I would recommend buying both albums as they seem to form a single entity, black, raw, uncompromising, painfully pleasurable …

Read the original review (in French) here: http://www.gutsofdarkness.com/god/objet.php?objet=15918

Our latest album has been review by scrappymilano on punkrockers.com. That guy definitely understood the “hardcore punk meets deathrock” motto of Secular Plague. Enjoy the review:

Today I will be reviewing Secular Plague’s “Death For Sale” album. I was gonna review something else, but since the band asked nicely, I gave the album a shot. I am just gonna make a quick review of this band’s album so I wont bore anyone to sleep.

For those who haven’t heard of this band before: Secular Plague is a Death Punk band from France (or Belgium. I am not really sure). The band formed on January 2012 by Vocalist/Bassist Saphire. So basically they are pretty new, they are foreign, and they play Deathrock music. They also said that people compare them to the Circle Jerks, TSOL, and 45 Grave.

Now for the album. I am gonna be real, I actually like this album. This is a shock because I don’t like listening to newer bands and I don’t listen to a lot of deathrock either. This album was pretty quick if you ask me, mostly because it’s also a hardcore punk influenced deathrock album. I am really surprised at the fact that people haven’t compare them to Christian Death yet, because that’s what they sound like. The band is basically a hardcore punk band with Rozz Williams singing in it which I think is awesome! The band really picked a great time for me to review the album because I was recently getting into Deathrock bands like 45 Grave, TSOL, and Christian Death.

The songs that stand out from the entire album was “Death For Sale”, “Vicious Cycle”, “Abolish Bullfighting”, “Angry and Frustrated”, “Outcast”, “Age Of Kali”, and my personal favorite the Christian Death-influenced “Latter Days”. I highly recommend you guys check these songs out, hell listen to the whole album if you can because they aren’t like 4 minute songs or something. This album literally took me less than 15 minutes to finish.

Overall this album gets 4 stars out of 5. It could have been 4.5 but the songs were a little too short in terms of length. Too short to focus on the songs to be honest, I think if the songs would have been a bit longer it would have been better, but that is me. It is a still a good album nonetheless. I HIGHLY recommend this album for those into TSOL’s deathrock work, Chritian Death, or even Deathrock in general. This album has plenty of attitude for a deathrock band.

read the review on punkrockers.com: http://www.punkrockers.com/vbforum/showpost.php?p=604989&postcount=23

Here’s the first review of our second album “Death For Sale”, by American blog Orange Juice Punx (love that name) so enjoy.

After George had submitted his review of the fine band Albion, we were requested to do a review of a band called Secular Plague’s album, Death For Sale. Now you may be thinking that this band has the right structure for a Death metal band, however what is presented through the album is a raw punk album reminiscent of the later half of the 70’s when Punk was in full flux, with such bands like The Sex Pistols and Black Flag, and if someone had told me this album was released back then, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised, yet with the frontman’s voice and the additional sounds added (in particular the tape recording at the start of the album) gives the band its own unique twist on the punk genre. The album starts off with a bang with the song Death For Sale, which displays an impressive intro into the album and also shows what they’re made of.

The rest of the album then carries on through with pretty much the same structure as the songs before did with a full on power chord riff which is iconic of the punk genre, however where one may think the song will carry on into a chorus or an extra verse, it is lacking in that aspect. This is not because the lyrics or workmanship in the songs isn’t up to scratch at all, it’s the fact that the songs aren’t long enough to get into, and by the time you’ve gotten into the song, there’s only 20 seconds left, whether this translates the same way live on the other hand is a completely different story. The lyrics alike the sound of the instruments, are also reminiscent of the Black Flag era of Punk, where the main reason of its existence was to break things and not as political as it got later on, especially with bands such as Anti-Flag and Rise Against, however, with Secular Plague they have subtly hinted their political views within the titles of their songs, in particular Consumerist Alienation and Sheeple Life. Overall, the album was enjoyable to listen to and has joined my library of music, and putting it up for free was also a good move for an up and coming band, so therefore I rate this album 3/5 stars, it’s a good album, but still has areas to improve on as said within this review.

Read the review on Orange JuicePunx