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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.
Empty was formed in 1995 in Zaragoza, Spain and is on to their third album with "The House Of Funerary Hymns". Nihilistic black metal like Darkthrone during the '90s with occasional clean vocals and acoustic breaks. The promo for "The House Of Funerary Hymns" only contains the opening track 'The Sense Of No Being' and judging an entire album based on one track is difficult and problematic. The playing is dense and crude while the atmosphere is black as pitch. Damastor (drums) also plays in Atman and Amnion, both of whom are also signed to the Ishtadeva label, and the commitment to his craft is admirable. The production is warm and organic compared to usual underground black metal standards. Based on the one track of this promo disc "The House Of Funerary Hymns" should be a decent primitive black metal record in the Norse tradition.http://www.ishtadeva.com/comment itWouter 6
