There are artists that can
reproduce a painting perfectly, but when they have to create something
themselves, they have no fantasy and paint a boring panorama. This German death
metal band debuts with an album that sticks on the safe side and lacks fantasy
and inspiration. For death metal it all sounds too perfect and too smooth. The
combination of old school death/thrash riffs and screaming/grunting are far from
exciting. Ron Brunke has a very average voice and does sound a bit forced in
stead of natural.
Another thing I have to
comment on is the weak mix. The guitar solo's on the album are mixed too far in
the background, I have no idea if they have done it on purpose, but I don't like
it. Is this a bad album? No, but I miss the brutality of a real death metal
band, sometimes the band reminds me of Morgoth or Disbelief. If you like clean
produced death metal, you will certainly like this. I prefer the somewhat more
brutal and more aggressive death metal.
Keywords for this album:
average, medium, poor, mediocre, feeble, not bad, not very good, middling,
so-so.
