Jesus Wept are death metal through and through, but they draw from a different set of influences than many of their peers, taking most of their cues from Heartwork, Swansong and '80s heavy metal. It's immediately clear from the start of "Buried Face Down," the first track on their forthcoming Apartheid Redux album-which remixes the four songs on their first EP and adds two originals, plus a WASP cover-that the band have patiently studied the riffcraft of Bill Steer and Michael Amott - Decibel Magazine
