lundi 13 mai 2024

Infected Chaos - Vanity Is Dawning (2023)

 

Conjuration Overture, Vanity Is Dawning is a four-song EP as an for the ambitious upcoming album

The four new compositions feature a fresh and engaging mix of styles that covers just about every extreme variety of metal. Of course, Infected Chaos can certainly be categorized primarily as death metal, with Chris Fischer's throaty screams in particular anchoring that categorization. The guitar work also definitely breathes an air of leaden death, with the addition of a pinch of black metal fury and a fairly dark atmosphere which would also suit black metal colleagues

Come Eventide, Come Evenfall, I immediately noticed that the catchiness of the guitar work is also reflected in the meter of the vocals. Often criminally overlooked by death metal, it's precisely the rhythm of screams and a growl that ensures the vocal passages stick in your ear. Associated with a very varied musical base, this makes the number a real hit in the tension between Death, Black and Melodic Death Metal. Vanity Is Dawning (track to pay attention), has a much darker tone, only the slightly too gargled growls stand in the way of the title marking the second highlight of the EP. Tehom (track to pay attention), on the other hand, does not reach the compositional class of his two predecessors, but crosses the landscapes as a rather boring death metal piece before People Of Ash finally ends the short piece on a very positive note, the track has many strong ideas to offer and takes up the symphonic-epic style of Vanity Is Dawning

 one could congratulate Infected Chaos for a successful undertaking, because Conjuration Overture, Vanity Is Dawning is, despite two weaker tracks and minimal deductions in the B rating, overall an EP that already makes you want to listen to the Austrian . The band's next album, a German co-production, which hopefully won't take too long to arrive

And for now you can directly add Conjuration Overture, Vanity Is Dawning to your collection.

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samedi 4 mai 2024

Mòr - Hear The Hour Nearing! (2024)

 

Label:Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions

Tracklist:

1.The Vanishing of Matter           

2.Eden               

3.Third Path                

4.The Apprentice                

5.Cave of Shadows            

6.The Letter of Loss  

7.Sulfur              

8.Sutcivni Los            

9.Smaragdina


Ten years after their debut (Aequinoctium first demo, in 2015 and a live EP in 2022), Mòr delivers its first album, Hear the Hour Nearing! via Les Acteurs De L’Ombre.

With Mòr, on The Vanishing of Matter we immediately get to the heart of the matter. It's big, stifling black metal. Its riff goes deep into your head before the break drives the point home with this raw voice and maybe this is the sing to pay attention of this album

riffs coming from the cold on Eden. Paradise takes hellish turns here. The music is raw and heavy, and after this the album becomes more atmospheric….you will encounter some little boring parts

The first instrumental Third Path lays the foundations where the bass has fun. A moment of respite. A waiting period where the listener remains waiting for what will happen next. Repetitive to the point of alienation as on the second instrumental Cave of Shadows and its hypnotic arpeggios.

The Letter of Loss is quite binary and obsessive at the beginning: it blasts, it belches before they give us a very calm, not very boring atmospheric track so that we can regain our senses before the dizziness comes to take us back into this frantic race.

Sulfur has bursts of riffs making us think of the early hours of Immortal… a forced, Spartan march not afraid to rehash the same nauseating riff.

Same thing with Sutcivni Los, the good thing about Mòr is that it’s difficult to pigeonhole them into black metal. Their music is subject to many influences: it’s modern, daring with a lot of risk-taking ranging from old school black metal……

the aggressive The Apprentice and his very “core” voice. No respite, the sound is anchored in old school but the excruciating voice opens towards more modernity with more classic breaks.

in any case I think you can add Hear The Hour Nearing!  to your collection

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