Cost: 99¢
Wrongly assumed this would be some sort of black/death when I bought it--between the style of the cover art and my brain automatically associating the band name with the Vader EP, I guess I had false expectations of some death metal element here (and I didn't look through the booklet until after buying it, so I missed all the corpsepainted band photos). Instead this is rather bland and uninspired attempt at '90s-early '00s Emperor/Dimmu style symphonic black metal.
The riffs are quite generic and forgettable. The constant blastbeats and double-bass pedals in the drumming quickly become extremely monotonous. Vocals are fine, and the keyboards are played well, but only fill out the songs with background melodies rather than providing any true atmosphere. It does seem somewhat overproduced (which isn't entirely unexpected given the type of BM they play), but it seems rather wasted on the monotonous music, and there's much more at fault here than a sterile production. There are a couple instances with some unexpectedly good soloing, but I seem more drawn to these just as monotony breakers in the guitarwork than anything really exemplary in the music. Despite my criticisms, considering this is a blog about bargain bin CDs, this does fine in meeting my personal quality expectations for a dollar disc. But I don't really see myself listening to it again.
Oh yeah, I must point out that the drummer's stage name is "Dross." C'mon guys, why didn't you make it easy on yourselves...
The riffs are quite generic and forgettable. The constant blastbeats and double-bass pedals in the drumming quickly become extremely monotonous. Vocals are fine, and the keyboards are played well, but only fill out the songs with background melodies rather than providing any true atmosphere. It does seem somewhat overproduced (which isn't entirely unexpected given the type of BM they play), but it seems rather wasted on the monotonous music, and there's much more at fault here than a sterile production. There are a couple instances with some unexpectedly good soloing, but I seem more drawn to these just as monotony breakers in the guitarwork than anything really exemplary in the music. Despite my criticisms, considering this is a blog about bargain bin CDs, this does fine in meeting my personal quality expectations for a dollar disc. But I don't really see myself listening to it again.
Oh yeah, I must point out that the drummer's stage name is "Dross." C'mon guys, why didn't you make it easy on yourselves...
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