Sunday, October 20, 2019

Embrace of Thorns - ...for I See Death in Their Eyes (2007)

   Embrace of Thorns belongs to those bands who could be found responsible in first line for the notoriety of Greek black metal.
   Their music is also death metal influenced that's represented in the noisy sound, in the vocal style, that's somewhere between black and death with a very strong echo effect, and in the complete lack of atmosphere. Maybe the noise and the echoing together can be explained as a sort of atmosphere, but these only gave similar impression that's usual at putrid sounding death metal bands. Like if the album was recorded in some deep underground dungeon. The guitar themes kept their strong blackened influence, almost non-stop intensely hammering drumms gave a raw perspective to the main view, and short, noisy solos completing the endlessly deviant circle of putrefaction. Their music is strongly related to the Blasphemy influenced black/death metal, but a more unified, obscure sound is in their focus instead of the complete chaotic insanity. The band is not in a hurry though they usually play very fast, middle speed slow downs are common to find, and the tempo switches are sudden. Still, the album is far from spontaneity, all parts are well composed in Embrace of Thorns' dark, deeply sick vision.

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