Dark Future (Brutal Bands)

 Pure Death Metal brutality in its most crude and straight form is exactly what this Czech brutal quartet delivers at “Dark Future”, the band’s third studio album… Before a quite long hiatus taken by the band after their second album “Hell Unleashed”, released in 2004, this vicious quartet re-appears with nine tracks of pure Death Metal savagery. Musically “Dark Future” is a pretty technical album; complex structures fill this opus entirely, there are a lot of tempo and atmosphere changes, which conjugated with the brutal musicianship, results in a very interesting and catchy sound. The proposal of this Czech band seems to fall somewhere between the brutal sound of Morbid Angel and the sinister atmospheres of Incantation; the brutality and obscurity are malignantly combined at this opus in order to create a blasphemous and disgusting form of Death Metal of the highest caliber. Even when this album can be hardly labeled as “original” (every element on this album sounds like we heard it somewhere else before), there’re certainly some freshness at the whole album structure; the accurate blend of blasting passages with doom-filled slow parts, the guitar work with its crushing riffs and twisted sense of melody, the guttural and gory vocals, the perfectly performed, unmerciful drumming and the deep bass lines… all these elements sounds, in its conjunction, as a powerful and intelligently composed opus. “Dark Future” shows the great potential and actual skills of this powerful band, I hope this album can reach a wider audience, than the band’s preceding efforts… I highly recommend this album not only to the Brutal Death Metal audience, but to everyone interested in the brutal yet enigmatic and sinister music… (AP)