Evocation - Dead Calm Chaos

Welcome to the Great Gothenburg School. Excellent students and believers to the schools principals, the Evocation, give us their fourth album "Dead Calm Chaos". With a pesimistic cover where the marble angel comes to pieces, the Swedish are here again to shake us having with the two lovely guest appearances. 

The album comes around two years after the "Tales From the Tomb" and continues to charm us with the music, the result of outstanding riffs that assist in the formulation of strong melodies, repeated double solos, but the simple solos look a lot at the heavy metal side. All these are embrassed very emphatically by the drums, but without excessive and create a very strong and essential background. In addition, the bass has its own characteristic sound, perfectly harmonized with those of the guitar. Overall the disc is moving in fast tracks, like its predecessor, but takes two breaths through the "Dead Calm Chaos" and "Dust". Generally the album presents 12 tracks from the wild era of the 1990s, when At The Gates and In Flames dinane lessons kind. And now that I said At The Gates, Andres Bjorler playes a couple of solos  in "Angel of Torment" and "Razored To The Bone", and Dan Swano of Edge Of Sanity is the guest of  "Antidote". 

Regarding production, mixing, mastering and so words are unnecessary. Swedish metal we are listening to, they can’t be amateurs! 

After all, although the Evocation continue to keep the tradition, this album is quite fresh, able to make you strike, putting you speakers as loud as possible and just break down everything.