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ABYSS OF PAIN – Professing Through Terror

Crash & Burn - 2010
Death Metal all in one piece
1 to 10: Commendable but we have to work (6)
article : Michele Marinel


Founded in 2003 as Swarm ribattezzatasi Abyss Of Pain and the following year, the band finally arrived in the Friuli Venezia Giulia at full length.

"Progression Through Terror" rattles 11 pieces of death metal with no frills, direct, effective, with a fat, round sound that points to the impact rather than to impress with technique.
In fact, the approach to the subject matter of these guys is more of a sledgehammer blow of a game of foil, but overall it is appreciated for this. The roots of this band are clear and deeply rooted in the tradition of European death metal, not so much melodic Gothenburg, as that before the first European stage, that of Entombed, Dismember, Grave, and so on.
A sound so dark and violent, made of solid, non-convoluted riffs, rhythms square that frequently slip into mid tempos sulfur on which hangs the dark and malignant deep voice of Alexander Molaro.
fairly linear structure of the songs is probably due to the presence of a single guitar. In fact, another ax could bring a little 'more dynamic to spare and maybe even some improvement in the process solo.
Definitely a combo by going to see a live view of the 'hit' they are capable. From a strictly critical point of view, however, although laudable love and integrity to a genre, the band have to work for one of his most distinctive personality. However in any event like this disc deathster

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DARK END – Assassine

Crash & Burn - 2010
Symphonic Black Metal
1 to 10: Remarkable (7)
article: Michele Marinel


remarkable second album by this ensemble all Italian black metal. Starting from the pack, with a really beautiful artwork, a concept not going to assume (despite appearances to the contrary it may seem) and ending with the content and substance of a record that while not revolutionary, usually by breathing from a lot time decay.

Since the theme of the album title is clear: we are talking about women who kill, killer, in fact. A concept that rattles off the bloody adventures of different women who influenced the history of crime. It ranges from Italy to the United States via France and New Zealand. Surprisingly, the Countess Bathory missing, perhaps to avoid falling into banality, although a chapter on the first serial killer in history would fit like a glove.
Musically the album is a summary of some symphonic black metal in the late '90s and early next decade. The sound is clean, precise execution, the songs rather than articulated. Surely the band refers to the big names like that. Some echo the grandiose orchestrations Dimmu Borgir recent album, reminiscent of the most ferocious passages instead of the Satyricon Nemesis Divina, the component theater and some bordered in black in the mix instead of heavy and thrash peep Cradle Of Filth the middle period. Echoes, mind you, not plagiarism, because the band moves to coordinate its own anyway, even if owed to the tradition of the genre.
Certainly not an album that upsets a scene but, as I said at the opening, a record that can be appreciated, that flows effortlessly despite the length and complexity of the songs, and shows that we can still say something interesting a scene like that of the symphonic black. Not recently.

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THEATRE OF TRAGEDY – Forever Is The World

AFM Records - 2009
Gothic Metal (drop in style ...)
1 to 10: An album unconvinced and unconvincing. (5) Andrea
"Psalm 69" Valeri

I have always defended the ToT, even after the turn-mail (according to the signed the two best albums of their career), even after the departure of Liv Kristine. Storm
fact, the previous work, to show its ability to songwriting, despite an apparent step back from the widespread use of electronics Musique and Assembly.
Here, however, lacks the very edge, it lacks that certain something that made their melodies enviable track and gave each a thick compelling. If we exclude
the initial Hide and Seek, the pieces follow one another with a certain indifference, formally well-packaged but without a real inspiration that will lead them to soar.
Definitely the real misstep in their career.