Call ov Unearthly - Blast Them Away (2012)

   Call ov Unearthly formed in 2005, but their full-length debut came out only in 2012 which is (except a demo compilation) their one and only album so far. But meanwhile 2 of their members played in a band called Ulcer Uterus too, that also played brutal death and had the same style.

   The music of both Ulcer Uterus and Call ov Unearthly wore the marks of the technical brutal death era of the mid '00s, and both bands practiced the style with excellence, releasing high quality records. The influences of bands like Vital Remains, Dying Fetus and Vader could be easy to discover in their music, especially Vader's influence by their simple song structures that are mainly relying on the overwhelming effect of frequently appearing and long lasting blast beats. These also serving as a unifying feature, giving frames firm as rock for all songs. At one hand it's advantageous, cause despite the technical or often switching guitar themes the unified sound never gets even slightly broken. But the other thing is, that the same time this solution cuts off any further possibilities to sound different, or to express anything else. Moreover there have been a nearly endless line of bands from the mid '00s whose music relied on the same thing, and it became challenging to identify certain specific features that could have served as differences between the music of these bands- if there was any. These could have been the main indicators why many of these bands tried to involve music such elements or very different music features and influences that had nothing to do with brutal death or with metal in general (Fleshgod Apocalypse for instance). The other way was to go in production quality as high as possible, such as Call ov Unearthly did. However, until the late '00s both paths had tremendous amounts of bands, and the whole technical / progressive brutal death wave was collapsed and forced into background. Therefore "Blast Them Away" was a late came release from this perspective, but illustrates well the several years earlier tendencies of the extreme underground. For brutal death fans this short, but purely devastating album might be strongly enjoyable.