Blazemth
For Centuries Left Behind
[Abstract Emotions]


A Spanish band playing an unoriginal yet fairly appealing style of early era Norwegian black metal mixed with a near exact copy of Abigor style (pre-Apokalypse) raped vocals. As I just mentioned, the band do have a fair deal of appeal, and although not even somewhat original, do produce a decent twenty minute mCD. The disc starts out with a decent intro filled with synths and the ever classic southern European "I have a homosexual rasp when I speak English" clean spoken vocals. The music then jumps into some Darkthrone-ish "Under A Funeral Moon" style at a mid-pace black metal. Nowhere as good as the before mentioned band, but there's a certain aura created here that gives me some respect for the band and their music. Heavy funeral-style keyboards also add a decent touch to the badly produced (yet badly produced in a good way) music....giving it a much deed "drab" feel of sorts. One thing that's missing from this release, and thus makes it seem somewhat false, is any Southern European flair. The music here is blatantly Northern sounding, not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just that I prefer it when Southern European bands add a touch or two of their unique form of melody/clean sections. But a person can't have everything right? :P
Summary: No originality whatsoever, yet solid, cranky sounding, and fairly genuine sounding raw black metal. Not bad, but not great, yet still worth getting your hands on if you have a few extra dollars hanging around (they also have another mCD out).


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