MY REGIME – Deranged Patterns

There’s an unpredictability to the songs on Deranged Patterns, the second album from Sweden’s My Regime, that adds to the edgy punch of the music. The best Thrash tends to have sections where riff and rhythm combine to form an aural “pocket” to get the necks swiveling in time before flying off into solos and sped up time signatures; these are the moments where the kinetic energy of the songs are coiled up for the eventual cathartic release; the moment just before the mosh pit explodes.

“Rays Of Grey” has an awesome pocket, but instead of using the pocket as a springboard for immediate explosion, My Regime instead drops the bottom out with a death crawl slow bridge and then launches into the stratosphere. The effect is dizzying, and they bring out a similar sonic surprise with the follow up track “Off To War”. The track has a fantastic Slayer-esque pocket that rides for a couple verses before the band downshifts into a slower, but still chunky section that somehow sounds like an ultra-violent badass donning armor and checking his weapons before the final section of the song thrusts him into brutal combat.

The thrills don’t cease there. The next song “I Am” is a fast declaration of Thrash precision; after that “The Sound Of Dying Dreams” gives fans a few bars of what the title promises the listener. “The Smiling Dog”, “The Cage”, and “Surreal Reality” are all complex workouts for a band that is top shelf at each position.

Deranged Patterns is well-named; there are patterns to be found—it’s a Thrash album, for Cthulhu’s sake—but they shift and connect into a unity that is never predictable … never dull.

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