Not much is known about this band, except that they are hailing from Belgium and this is their first opus containing 7 songs. The music is pretty brutal and harsh raw blackened death metal but with traces of catchy and epic melodic, at moments melancholic guitar work. Some songs are more epic and longer, some are shorter. Lyrics are in Wallonic language, so I don’t understand them at all, so I can’t tell you what are they singing about. I pretty much like this mix of blast beats, death metal brutality and black metal epicness with some gentle and subtle keyboard parts behind the song structures. Vocals are not your typical black metal screaming, they are rather growling in death metal style, but fit perfectly to the song structures. My personal favorites are Nor Terii, Chants Nervien and Aux Marches Picardes. Good album!
This is a split release of mighty two bands, five songs each delivered to this record. American Sathanas deliver five songs of raw mixture of black and thrash metal with black metal vocals which are a mix of growling and screaming, but you can understand most of what is being sung so that is another plus for the band. I like melodies and some catchy hooks guitars provide and there are some slower songs on this one like pumping ‘Defiled’, songs like ‘Hail Lucifer’ or ‘Jaws of Satan’ are to become your favorites. I can also hear a bit of Venom in Sathanas’ song structures, which is great.
DeathEpoch are hailing from Poland and this band delivers five songs on this record. This band creates dark and almost touchable thick atmosphere with their vision of black/death metal, but they also create eerie sounds with keyboard, samples and electronic which fits perfectly to the song structures like for example in awesome ‘B.D.’ All songs by DeathEpoch on this release are somehow made of initials like for example ‘D.W.’ (personal favorite) or ‘G.O.M.’. Vocals are very deep and very brutal like in death metal rather than black metal. Guitars create some epic melodies and blast beats create brutality with elements of war metal thrown in for good measure.
This is an excellent split release by two underground bands, but I somehow prefer Sathanas side of record more, but that is a matter of personal taste.
Finnish Progeny of Sun released their second single ‘False Radiance‘ from the upcoming debut album ‘Throne of Desolation’. The album is set to be released on December 8th via Inverse Records.
The composer Hauta comments: “in rehearsals, our drummer always wants the guitars to be louder in the in-ear monitoring. That’s how I got the idea for a song where the drummer would have to play completely on his own and if he concentrates on the guitars, game over. The song didn’t raise great enthusiasm for the singer at first, but as soon as he got his own voice in, he started to like it. Bass was executed normally.”
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