1. The Shadowpath
2. Inside the Crypt
3. The Dawn For Our Race
4. Dimension of Dakness
5. Trespassing Into... the Abyss
6. Concealing the Daylight
7. World Devastator
Comment:
Re-issue of the only demo from '93 (7 songs, an album) by this swedish band with members from INTERMENT, ENTRAILS, UNCANNY, CENTINEX... that plays a very heavy old school Death Metal with influences in the vein of CRYPT OF KERBEROS, FUNEBRE, DEMILICH, ETERNAL DARKNESS, BOLT THROWER, FUNEBRARUM... Dark, heavy... killer!! Comes with killer artwork by Juanjo Castellano and complete booklet with liner notes, lyrics, old & new photos, demo cover...
we are dancing on the graves of our death metal's ancestors, we think about immortality and rattle bones to the rhythm of the only one true death metal. Swedish cult is alive again with incredible strength and energy. If you thought you'll escape this Hydra, you are hellishly wrong. It grabs you, drug and bite with teeth sharp like tip of knives. When I listen, I'm sometimes scary to come into the light of God. A thousand times cursed, sacrificed, cashiered. So I'm feeling with "The Shadowpath". Doom mood of open graves breathes from all sides at me. This album is a obligation for all old school death metal maniacs. Welcome to hell! Swedish deadly album that knocks nails in your coffin! Excellent morbid CD! I look forward to the new record! Cult!
Yo creo que estos siete largos y sinuosos temas tienen tanto que ver con los primeros Bolt Thrower (“In battle there is no law”, o sus fantásticas Peel Sessions) como con bandas manifiestamente consideradas pioneras del Doom más sludgero y pesado: Winter o Thergoton.
Mit einem überaus geilen Klang warten Moondark auf, der sich als schön morbide und knarzig umschreiben lässt. Kein Wunder eigentlich, denn das vorliegende Tondokument beinhaltet das einzige Demo der Band, welches klangtechnisch absolut überzeugen kann. Moondark’s “The Shadowpath” stammt von 1993 und klingt entsprechend authentisch, wobei es anderseits schade und irgendwie auch völlig unverständlich ist, warum der Truppe bislang keine große Aufmerksamkeit bescheinigt wurde. Nach besagtem Demo war nämlich leider irgendwie Ruhe im Schacht, wobei das bislang vorhandene Material nun dank Xtreem Music der Metal Gemeinde zugänglich gemacht wird. Dabei lohnt es sich durchaus, etwas tiefer in die Materie einzutauchen, denn allein die Zusammensetzung basiert auf Namen wie Interment, Entrails oder auch Uncanny, und entsprechend darf man von der zu erwartenden Kost ausgehen – schwedischer Todesblei, dessen Ausrichtung unter anderem ebenfalls in Richtung (alte) Disgrace und Funebre geht. “The Shadowpath” steht also für richtig starken Death Metal, der zudem mit dem Killertrack “The Dawn For Our Race” ein verdammt markantes Tondokument beinhaltet, welches sich sofort und ohne jegliche Vorwarnung in die Hirndecke schraubt – sauber! Dabei ist das Teil wohlgemerkt nicht so modern, wie heutzutage jede Band von da oben klingt, sondern wartet mit einem gewissen Charme auf, dessen Originalität Moondark zugutekommt und allen Freunden von Desecrecy die Sabber im Schlund anreichert.
Neben genannten Vorzeigetiteln, so sind noch weitere Perlen auf dem Silberling zu finden, welche sich qualitativ nur wenig unterscheiden, was am Ende nichts anderes verlauten soll, als dass “The Shadowpath” nicht nur optisch ein absoluter Leckerbissen geworden ist, sondern auch in Sachen stilistischer Umsetzung ein fast schon zeitloser Klassiker geworden ist. Death Metal Lunatics vorgetreten!
Basically 'The Shadowpath' is the untitled and sole demo of Sweden's Moondark. The band was formed in 1993 by members of Fulmination, Entrails, Interment, Uncanny and Centinex. They started out playing covers of bands like Eternal Darkness, Bolt Thrower and Crypt Of Kerberos, but soon they started to write original material. Material that ended up on the 1993 demo. Musically you can describe this as super-heavy death/doom influenced by the aforementioned bands, but you can also hear the sound of American acts like Rottrevore or Incantation.
After the demo the band called it quits and the guys continued in other bands. To this day these guys are still active in numerous bands but Moondark has been resurrected as well. In 2007 the demo was released by a few labels on both CD and LP. The recordings then got the title 'The Shadowpath'. Apparently there's still a market for these recordings as Xtreem Music once again re-issued this killer recordings. Don't expect any high-tech songs but crude, simple and heavy death/doom. It seems the band is working on new material and based and what I heard on these 1993 recordings I am very curious about.
Todo eso y más se puede encontrar en esta nueva re-ediciĂłn que ve la luz el 1 de mayo del presente año. Aun asĂ creo que es poco, se hecha en falta algĂşn bonus track con algĂşn tema en vivo o algĂşn ensayo o grabaciĂłn anterior o posterior, cualquier archivo audible seria valido, es lo Ăşnico que penaliza y se hecha en falta en esta re-ediciĂłn. De momento solo está disponible la ediciĂłn en CD, los que deseen el vinilo aĂşn tendrán que esperar unos meses para ver su deseo realizado (las ganas me devoran las entrañas poco a poco cada dĂa ¡Uffffff!).
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