Ana Kefr
The Burial Tree (II)
Rating
Style: Extreme progressive metal
Release date: 3 May, 2011
Playing time: 44:00
 

Every now and then, very special albums are released. This is one of them. Imagine a band that rapes the metal genre repeatedly and turns it  into a vile, bleeding heap of sounds.

Imagine a band that one moment sounds like Bal-Sagoth, the next like Lamb of God, then like a prog metal outfit, then like Nile, then Slipknot, and then like an Armenian wedding orchestra. And imagine that the band still manages to keep you, the listener, in the realm of sanity and leaves a red thread through the whole affair.

It oughtn't be necessary to tell you at this point that t
here's plenty to dig into on this album. A clarinet solo that with the most natural ease become a guitar solo...I mean, what the fuck?!

Is this post modernity in metal? Is it beyond post modernity, even? Thematically, we're in dark, Biblical times (trumpets, serpents and plenty of misery), something that doesn't make the whole affair less fascinating, methinks. This album lives and breathes paradoxes and anachronisms!

This demanding stuff to listen to, but once you've cracked it, it's well worth the effort. I'm hooked, that's for sure!


Tracklist

01. Ash-Shahid
02.
Emago
03.
Monody
04.
In the House of Distorted Mirrors
05.
Thaumatrope
06.
Bathos and the Iconoclast
07.
The Zephirus Circus
08.
Jeremiad
09.
Apoptosis
10.
Parasites
11.
Paedophilanthrope
12. Fragment.
13. The Blackening
14. The Collector

Label: Muse Sick Music
Distribution: Ana Kefr
Artwork rating: 70/100
Reviewed by: Thomas Nielsen
Date: 16 April, 2011
Website: www.anakefr.com