The Wakedead Gathering
The Gate and the Key ()
Wydane przez Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae FundamentumRok wydania Kraj USANapisał Flemming Gabin8
Name me one good one-man death metal band, and I’ll name you five that are absolutely fucken atrocious. The Wakedead Gathering is the band of Andrew Lampe, and while it is a one-man project, I’m as fucken surprised as you were that this doesn’t completely fucken blow. Holy shit, dudes. I’m actually fucken surprised that death metal like this is still being made. Fuck knows that metalheads are a fiercely stupid bunch, and with the ongoing popularity of retro-death metal revival movement I’m fucken happy to have a record like this. The Wakedead Gathering plays pure death metal, and that’s about it. It’s sometimes technical, sometimes atmospheric – but most of the time it is fucken dark and hateful sounding. "The Gate and the Key" is a fucken traditional record, pillaging various wells of mostly American bands. At least Lampe knows his fucken classics cos this band pillages from the best, including but not limited to early Incantation, Immolation, Death and Autopsy. I don’t know about you fucken assholes, but that’s some boss death metal right there. And the vocals? They are totally like Daniel Corchado era Cenotaph. The drumming is fucken primal, and this album oozes bass-heaviness. Sometimes the riffing wanders into "Spheres" era Pestilence territory, but that’s hardly a bad thing. Apparently this is another record inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, and it has some of the trappings of being a one-man band – but on the whole this record fucken slays. This actually sounds like a full band, and while some ideas needed some rewriting (or input from a different member) at least this record remembers the old values of death metal. This record doesn’t fucken blast endlessly, it doesn’t continually slam and doesn’t noodle. No. This is a very dark and earthen sounding death metal album. Cold, ominous, uncaring. It combines the fucken monstrous darkness of Incantation with the dissonance of early Immolation, the musicality of Death and the funereal atmosphere of early Autopsy. This record is anything but modern. It is traditional to the fucken bone. For fucken reals, you need to pick up this record now if you value good death metal. I’m surprised that Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fundamentum picked this band, seeing how they usually sign black metal. Not that I’m complaining. "The Gate and the Key" is an amazing record. If all current day death metal was like this, it would be 1994 and not 2014.
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