Reviews
\r\nCavus come from Finland and they play traditional blasphemous black metal.
\r\nThey were formed in the year 2008. Fester And Putrefy is their very first album,
\r\nafter the self-titled e.p they released(2009).
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\r\nIt took me several times to listen to this album and in the end i liked it.
\r\nMany good parts along with great traditional sound on guitars.
\r\nBut what I liked the most was the sound on the bass. Devastating sound that we don’t
\r\nusually hear in this music. And the vocals are great. Their vocalist just worked
\r\nFor ten years I’ve been missing these guys. I had heard the band’s name but I never laid my ears on their tunes until this promo came to my hands. The fact they are americans with the name "The Autumn Offering" perhaps is foretelling of what I may find within this cd.
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\r\n It’s so damn easy writing about something sooo bad! Inflammare come from Germany and even though they established their band in 1994 they decided to release their only official release ever in 2010. After looking at the digipack promo, I thought this could be some serious shit! But I was terribly wrong....the things I had to endure for the next minutes are indescribable. WHY?
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\r\nDakrya is a greek word and it means “tears”. I don’t know what these guys were thinking when they picked this name for the band, but one thing is for sure: they will bring you anything but tears with their music.
\r\nNo, it’s not that it is a happy music, yet it is mesmerizing and imposing. The intense dramatic tone of the songs and the so theatrical performance on the vocals – by Christina Kalantzi, Thomais Chatzigianni and George Droulias on the brutal ones) result to such a special and incredible piece of work.
The sound of the rain is purifying, almost hypnotizing. Somewhere in the distance the scattered notes of an otherworldly piano are escorting the sound of the falling rain drops as time seems to stand still. These sounds signal the transition to a dream or a nightmare. The mourning guitars are paving the way to an undefined world where the desperate vocals of Mikko Ojala (sounding more like screams of agony) plunge you deeper and deeper into a gloomy dark trance from which you are suddenly retracted by the mesmerizing call of Eliisa Tuomanen’s voice.
If you hadn’t had the chance to check them out so far, it’s never too late, provided you like this kind of music. Antimatter were formed back on 1997 by Duncan Patterson (former bassist/songwriter of Anathema) and Moss. They released three albums, “Saviour”, “Lights Out” and “Planetary Confinement”, after which Patterson leaves in order to form the band Ion. Danny Cavanagh of Anathema joins Antimatter on their fourth studio album, “Leaving Eden”.
\r\nThe press kit specifically points out that the band stands out of the mass due to talented innovative songwriting etc...So I will start by strongly disagreeing with them in every way possible. Against The Flood play exactly what a thousand others do these days: metal/screamo/core american style. And they’re british..
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\r\nThe american scene of our time is divided into two categories in my opinion. There are those that grew up with the more "classic" stuff(no need to mention any examples, right?) and there are the younger ones that grew up with whatever had the "core" labeling attached to its end. And I’m not saying this is bad thing or something necessarily negative. But the thing with Within The Ruins is somewhat strange.
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