A Canorous Quintet
The Only Pure Hate
[No Fashion]
Much more impressive than their "As Tears.." EP, I think they have a disc in
between those two, but I haven't heard it. Anyway, the riffing is somewhat
in the Gothenberg death metal vein, but is more straightforward, with more
sedate harmonizing between the guitars. This disc also has one of the
coolest songs I've heard in awhile, "The Complete Emptiness". Nothing
ground breaking about it, it just has some really cool riffs and a cool
arrangement that mixes old school Swedish death metal with the Gothenberg
style. Also present on the disc are some really cool acoustic passages that
aren't just their main riffs done acoustically. Production is clean and
thick thanks to Thomas Skogsberg and Jokke Pettersson.
© 2000 j. mcintyre