As The Last Human Spot In Me Dies (Self Released)

 Strange name for a strange band… This Swedish trio plays a great mixture of styles, imagine this: put Vintersorg and Iron Maiden into a mixer, add some doses of progressive rock, some traditional Death Metal, melodic Death Metal and Black Metal, the results… Anachronaeon. This band is one of the most original bands I have heard in the last time, it takes pieces of many bands any different styles and mix it in some unique way, it’s hard to categorize this band, Anachronaeon does not belongs to any musical style, but at the same time belongs to many… this album has a great balance between heaviness and melody, this one is full of emotion and some abstract beauty, when we talk about heaviness this album moves “in crescendo” along the disc, this work start like a Metal/Rock album, but changes it form to a complex mix of Power Metal, Death Metal and even Black Metal but keeping their own sound along the disc. The musical performance is impeccable and all members show their musical skills. The guitar is protagonist; it reminds me sometimes the guitar performance of Eric Ruttan (ex-Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal, Alas) especially in his work with Alas. The drumming is varied and versatile, sometimes is the base of a progressive song (with the respective extremely technical performance) and sometimes is the apocalyptic machine gun of a blast beat Death Metal piece (by the way, the drums where recorded live, but sounds perfect). The voices are as versatile as the whole music in this album, those ranges from clean, melodic, mid toned, strong rocking voices (absolutely remarkable!!) to deep Death Metal growls. This album is highly coherent, even though they use many different styles and sounds, they never sound like anybody else (this is a weak point of many style-mixer bands, sometimes sound like a “Frankenstein”…music made with other’s bodies parts…). This album is for any “open-minded” metaller and even rocker listeners, but will certainly irritate some Metal purist… (AP)