01. Intro - Intermental Excitation
02. Electrical Death
03. Chronicles of a Paraphiliak
04. Anatomy of an Angel
05. The Finest Form For Body Modification
06. Feeling the Razor's Touch
07. Abandonement to the Hanger
08. Subsistence For Regeneretic Impulse
09. Lyssa
10. A Blade in the Dark
Comment:
1st album by this genius greek band that plays an incredibly raging, furious yet technical and complex Thrash Metal that will please every lover of bands like CORONER, RIGOR MORTIS, DARK ANGEL, SLAYER, SADUS...
What we have here is some brutal Thrash from the land of Hellas, Greece. Thrash bands are a dime a dozen and it's uncommon to encounter a young Thrash band that can grab your attention but this one does. For one thing, bass solos! The bassist is so damn talented the band had him solo on the song 'Electrical Death'. This band has a lot going for them. The musicianship is great and the vocals powerful as hell. It sounds like fast, brutal speech as much as singing. I find that the vocals is the element I focus on the most as a listener. The cover art is sick too: an angel robed in black, laced with many black spikes, standing between rows of adult and baby cadavers that stretch back to infinity. Whatever message lies there, it should grab your attention if only for a while. When you listen to this album you don't want to skip around a lot like with a lot of other Thrash releases. The riffs are not totally blatant rip offs of older and better bands, but are interesting to hear and blistering fast. Unfortunately, a couple songs like 'Chronicles Of A Paraphiliak' and 'Abandonment To The Hangar' clock in at 7 and 9 minutes long respectively. I don't know many bands in any style of Metal that can pull off such long opuses successfully. People even come down on IRON MAIDEN for that from time to time! But, that's a minor complaint when the album is chock full of catchy, fast, riffs and a great vocalist's pipes. A couple of songs feature blast beats and some tempo changes that show they aren't constantly going mach 10 and it's a nice, brief, change of pace that's cool to listen to like on 'Feel The Razor's Touch'. They even go acoustic to open 'Lyssa'. However even without these admittedly refreshing diverse elements, this would still be a good Thrash album. I guess it's because this band sounds like they believe in what they are doing and are excited to be here playing Metal that I enjoyed listening to this so much. If you have time to check these guys out, do it.
El grupo ha mantenido, desde sus inicios en 2007 (y tras un pequeño parón en 2009), altas constancias de secretismo acerca de sus planes y la elaboración de un LP. Muchos integrantes han ido y venido dentro de la banda fundada por Zissis “Coroner†(guitarrista rÃtmico), razón primeriza por la que el disco que hoy nos ocupa, su debutante â€Anatomy of an Angel†ha visto la luz este 2015, cuando, en verdad, su lanzamiento estuvo planificado para 2013. La espera ha sido larga, pero, finalmente, ya ha llegado hasta nosotros el disco de marras, y, lo que es más, he de decir que dicha espera ha merecido la pena.
Junto a Zissis se le unen Nick “Chainsaw Murders†a la guitarra lÃder, Apollonas “The Paraphiliak†al bajo, el baterÃa Vaggos P.G.C y, finalmente, el vocalista Panagiotis Toufexidis para componer un discazo del copón.
Tras la sobresaliente portada (obra del artista Andrei Bouzikov, quien ya ha trabajado con bandas como Skeletonwitch, Municipal Waste o Violator), nos adentraremos en una subespecie de álbum conceptual que basa su temática en la psique y concepción antropológica, haciendo, muy a menudo, uso de diversas citas y frases textuales de figuras y autores como E.A. Poe o W. Shakespeare. AsÃ, nos citamos con una obra de Thrash que mantiene una fisonomÃa estructural y un ambiente trabajados y elaboradÃsimos hasta la extenuación.
La calidad del material queda vigente desde primera instancia, justo al zambullirnos en la magia de la introducción “Intermental Excitationâ€, una acústica similar a “Beyond Eternity†de Destruction, pero con un sabor mucho más fantasioso y hermoso, el mismÃsimo Mozart inducido al suave Metal… aunque la paz dura poco al llegar "Electrical Death", puro Thrash imponente, voluminoso, violento y con los decibelios en llamas y a punto de estallar, siempre con un sonido clásico en los riffs, en la onda de Slayer-Kreator, y con un vocalista sucio como es Panagiotis y un Apollonas que no para de juguetear libremente –pero con consciencia- con su bajo. Brutal comienzo.
Sin abandonar su estilo progresivo, hállese in situ la canción homónima, “Anatomy of an Angelâ€, en la que se respira mucho sabor Sodom en los riffs. IncreÃble el enfoque coral con el que se subraya la voz de Panagiotis, genial. Ello, aunado en conjunto con los duelazos solistas de primera categorÃa y ese constante subidón de la intensidad musical, nos queda todo un delicatesen por traspasar.
Con un minutaje mucho más ajustado, y con una esencia melódica que ya ralla lo suyo en cuanto se pasea por la avenida del dolor “Subsistence for Regeneretic Impulseâ€, en el que la mayor parte de su entidad será instrumental (pura tralla).
Gran trabajo discográfico que podrÃa llegar al sobresaliente bajuno de haber presenciado una mejor ecualización y limpieza en el aspecto sonoro. Pequeño problema que, seguramente, suplirán en un futuro cercano, ya que parece que estos cinco demonios tienen una senda a seguir muy bien fraguada.
Ojos y oÃdos a Benefactor Decease, quienes, por cierto, están por escribir el que será ya su segundo disco, “Abnormal Attachmentsâ€, el cual, sin dudas, será un fuerte aliciente para instigar en la (seguramente positiva) evolución de esta banda griega, la cual, perfectamente, tiene mucha posibilidad y capacidad compositiva por expandir.
Mientras tanto, quede más que recomendado esta estupenda anatomÃa para ángeles, el cual se gana sin problemas los buenos cuatro cuernos medio-bajos, un 8.3/10 de fenómeno para comenzar el paso de una banda que promete.
Es Thrash cultivado en el Mediterráneo, a fin de cuentas.
Hay mucho donde escoger, pero “Abandonement to the Hanger†resulta una canción excelente. Oda de 9:01 minutos, algo que se dice pronto pero ante lo que no es fácil mantener el tipo, resulta un buen ejemplo de cómo ejecutar Groove básico y afilado, riffeos ametralladores con sabor greco/teutón, las tÃpicas cabalgadas atresilladas del estilo a lo CORONER o DEATHROW o secciones más coloristas y progresivas, conformando un tema que baraja diferentes tonalidades y resulta excepcional. “A Blade in the Dark†cierra el trabajo con una amplia gama tonal ante la que no caben cierres de miras, desde el Thrash/Death a otros empujes más convencionales, aportando musicalidad, liquidez sónica y complejidad a partes iguales.
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