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Death metal is such a limitless genre. You can do whatever you'd like. It can be over the top technical or slow. Brutal or insane and it's all so good. When we made "Visions of Death" it just came out with a natural old school-ish vibe and that's great, but our newer material has a much more modern technical vibe. I love how death metal has evolved.
For me, death metal should be heavy as fuck, brutal (which doesn't necessarily mean "fast"), atmospheric and evil. If the "evil" thing is not there, you can't label yourself death metal, that's a fact. I'm so fucking close minded when it comes to metal music... I listen to the SAME hard rock, heavy, thrash, doom, death and black metal that I used to listen to 15 years ago.
After a demo in 2006 Ghent, East Flanders doom metal combo My Lament now debut on Russia's Solitude Productions with "Broken Leaf". The title track slowly builds upon a central melody and the spoken vocals towards the closing section are similar to My Dying Bride's Aaron Stainthorpe and sparse baroque riffing sounds like classic Insanity Reigns Supreme. Overall, there's a sense for melody and vocal variety that reminds of "Turn Loose the Swans" era My Dying Bride mixed with the minimalist approach of "Prophecy Of Doom" era Insanity Reigns Supreme. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Kris Belaen at the acclaimed CCR Studios in Zulte, Belgium (Aborted, In-Quest, Leng Tch'e) "Broken Leaf" comes with a warm organic sounding and bass-heavy production that can compete with any major band in this genre. Belgium continues to deliver some of the most amazing doom metal this year as releases by Marche Funebre ("Norizon") and Insanity Reigns Supreme ("Occultus Insanus Damnatus") serve to prove. http://solitude-prod.comcomment itWouter 8
