Pre Album Promotional CD   (Self Released)

 This band is a Brutal Death Metal project of Hellaeon and Doomsayer, members of the “Blackest” Black/Death Metal band in Australia (and probably worldwide…) Darklord. I must say they musical approach, really impresses me, not THAT much as Darklord, but pretty much indeed! This work consist of a compilation of three separated works; the firsts three song are from their Demo 2004, the following three are from Studio Practice Demo 2004 and the lasts five songs are from their Rehearsal 25/02/05. Musically this work is huge piece of darkness and brutality. The low vibrations created in this work are only comparable with an earthquake. The music flows at full speed, nebulous, incredibly aggressive and, of course, brutal. Their musical approach reminds me the works of Death Metal demons such Incantation, early Immolation and some hints of Deicide, that is to say, absolutely heavy and dark. The guitar work is the main responsible for this immense darkness, with fast, low and blurry riffing that sometimes becomes into an impenetrable wall of down tuned noise. The drumming is extremely fast but pretty legible. The voices are incredibly low and guttural grunts with some shrieks here and there, a little low mixed in some passages, I don’t know if it was intentionally or not, but I do not discuss the results. There’s a couple of interesting covers like “Leprosy” (Death cover) and “Flag of Hate” (Kreator cover), of course these versions are executed in the Beyond Mortal Dreams style, but the results are indisputably good. That makes this work even more interesting. The production in this work is variable, because, as I mentioned before, there are three different works in this Cd, but I think it’s OK (as I always said: A bad production could, sometimes, improve the atmosphere of the music), but if you are expecting a crystal clear piece of overdone Death Metal in the vein of the US Death Metal styled bands (i.e. Hate Eternal, Deeds Of Flesh, Suffocation, etc…) you probably will be disappointed. I think this band could easily transcend the boundaries of Death Metal because of their extremely dark sound that could easily catch the attention of Black and even Doom Metal listeners. So we just have to wait for their official debut and hope they maintain their brutal and dark posture. (AP)