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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.
Third and final album of this now defunct experimental doom metal combo from Glasgow, Scotland. Snowblood merge droning doom metal with sludge, sounding somehat similar to Yob, Winter in its clear (early) Celtic Frost inspired type of riffing and a bit of Khanate in its schizophrenic and alienated sounding vocals and crushing grooves. The tracks are filled with extensive psychedelic sections which contrast great with the angular riffing and gruff vocals. The grooves are crushing and unrelenting, sometimes reminding of the early feedback laden wanderings of UK doomers Esoteric. This is doom of the bruising kind, drawing comparisons with Khanate and Burning Witch. The sludge seems to pushed to the background in favor for the doom elements, which make Snowblood sound far more brutal than the average sludge band. The production is good with a crunchy guitar tone and massive sounding drums. The lush and intricate artwork was done by Glyn at [Scrawled]. "Snowblood" is the perfect eulogy for one of Britain's most promising new doom metal outfits.http://www.superfirecords.co.ukcomment itWouter 8
/ 2010-08-22 - 17:25:49 (CET)
#1Totally blows everything away in the same field, if this was on Hydra Head or Southern Lord these guys would be huge. Hope they're gonna tour this one.