Side A of the cassette:
Haunting church keyboarding begins the journey into this great demo.
Spoken vocals together with just the keyboards is a great effect. But there
is a audible click and a pretty loud hiss on this track. It is joined together
with the next track "The Dead will Leave Their Grave" the vocals are handled
by Johan who has a great 'death' voice. The deep and "non-machine relied"
death vocals that every death metal band's vocalist should be jealous about.
The only other 'death' vocalist who has impressed me this much is Andrew
Thompkins of Paramaecium. Is this a doom band? Slow drumming with sludge
guitars are evident here. But the vocals are echoed with the shrieked 'black'
vocals. Alright, they have 2 seperate vocalist to do different jobs. The
speed picks up towards the end only to revert back just before the finish.
"Live Forever" another sludge track, or so I thought at the beginning,
it speeds up and then breaks up(meaning it stops), repitative riffs with
kinda bad production makes it sound average. I'm kinda glad when it finished
so I could get to the other side
Side B of the cassette:
Can't really hear the growled vocals clearly here due to the mixing
but the black vocals are audible and quite clear, strong tune(melody) over
here. Slow drumming combined with tuned low guitars, nice plucking starts
off the 2nd part of the song. More melodic(could be due to the fact that
it's clearer), blasted beats with black vocals around ever corner and bend.
A long song with the parts where the music slows down makes it a nice listen.
"Calling Your Name" death metal. Wow my facourate kinda genre in metal.
Nice growl, low and intense riffs brings to mind Crimson Thorn / Metanoia.
The black vocals starts with the pounding (sounds like hitting a shield).
The style is definately in line with Metanoia, I mean the variety and the
different elements thrown in.
Production is kinda bad. But the strong songs makes up for the bad production.
Get it if you can.
SCORE: 7/10