I bought this from a distro around the time it was released, and I'm glad it was described briefly there, because I don't know what I would have thought based on the minimalist lime green inserts marked with fleurs-de-lis. The sole picture in the layout--an inner booklet pic of a home studio in a room with Mickey Mouse wallpaper--doesn't help much either. This is a French one man band playing thrashy, mid-paced death metal (I'm hesitant to call this death/thrash since that brings to mind a more frantic style--Massacra or Agressor this is not). It's obvious that a drum machine is being used, but the tempo of the music never gets fast enough where it becomes annoying. The vocals are a peculiar hoarse growl; I couldn't think of anything exactly like them but they had a strange familiarity...Then it hit me--there's a certain tonality that reminds me of Lemmy! Think lower vocal passages on Motörhead stuff from the '90s and later.
This chugs along pleasantly enough, but there's nothing particularly compelling about it. A single 2010 track from the Vorace Myspace shows more of a melodic death metal influence, and I preferred it to most of the CD tracks.
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