First Born Evil   (TAF Productions)

 From the lands of Italy, this fairly new band comes; Aposthate was born in 2004, formed by members of Thy Anthems Fades and Heretical, shortly after their creation the band recorded “First Born Evil” their first (and only at the time) blasphemous strike. The band delivers here an extreme blend of Death and Black Metal with some Thrash structures. The music of Aposthate moves at full speed, driven by savage drums, full of chaotic blast beat passages, pounding double bass parts and an extreme, technical performance with excellent structures and velocities changes… in the finest vein of the technical US Death Metal... The guitars are quite blurry and turbulent, playing with a mid tuning sounds pretty much into the Death Metal parameters, but plays obscure, blackened “melodies” mixed with restless savagery adding a slightly Black Metal sound, there are some remarkable lead guitar lines here and there, including some more traditional Metal sound… The vocal are mid toned deathly grunts adding an (even more) Death Metal atmosphere. As separate elements the music of Aposthate could be easily labelled as Death Metal, but as a whole, this album has obscure as hell atmospheres, only comparable with the infernal Black Metal auras. “First Born Evil” consist in eight songs clocked at 24 minutes of pure Extreme Metal, all songs are quite sort, the longest one reaches the 3:30 minutes; this adds variety and dynamism to the whole work. The entire album sound incredible strong, with a good production improving the band excellent technical performance. Although “First Born Evil” was recorded few months after their beginning, Aposthate reaches, at this album, an incredibly high quality and mature sound… definitely a demolishing debut. (AP)