From Enigma’s cello and recitation, Nocturnal liturgies, Everlasting’s chants (Everlasting, unapproachable, Neverending, the immortal one) to When all is Said bile in a skillful and admirable way, despair balances between as if unbalanced two related emotions, sadness and anger. Nothing But Dead Remains may have been quite primitive and sounded more like a band trying to find its footing but here EDGE OF SANITY made a monstrous leap creating a 60 minute masterpiece. The self-titled song, crushes your body from the beatings and ends you with an astonishing guitar solo, influenced by the movie Phantasm… Let there be Swedish death metal… Besides the songs Bitter Loss, But Life Goes On and Supposed to Rot the album begins with the best song in music’s history. I am my own God, master, slave and I will be beyond the grave… This album with the blue artwork and the left hand path, was meant to make history about the swarm of bees and the overweight guitar sustain, punk-ish powerchords and Petrov’s soul-reaping vocals. He who practises the dark arts, keeps falling from God, from grace, in order to fulfill the personal “Godhood”. The left hand path, is getting deeper and completes the fall… From the heavens to the pit. This is why this side is labeled as the dark one, due to its inward nature. The left hand side is always the weaker strength-wise but it was the one that was once holding the shield. The side of feelings, of the heart, of instincts, of depth and of darkness. The most American-ish Swedish album, that not only did it look Deicide into their eyes, but it sounds supernatural and violent even today… If we could combine the riffs from Dark Angel’s Time Does not Heal, the fury of Darkness Descends, the demonic atmosphere of Hell Awaits and Johan Larsson’s monstrous lungs, this Seance’s album is the result. Seance managed to make their own Pierced from Within in 1992, since it is an extremely technical album with drums of a high level of difficulty. When I picked this up from the record store’s shelf I thought that a cover artwork by Dan Seagrave looks good… what was in the album though, was even better. I listed 16 of my favorite albums without having experienced the beginning or the influence if you prefer of all of them, so the point of view is purely subjective… Point of view or point of few … Let’s Go! On the one hand the American scene based on the technical and clean production of Leprosy and on the other the Swedish one with a more punk sound, the dirt and the doomy aura of Severed Survival. We would say that the two biggest scenes mirrored in two albums. As we are already officially in Winter although this is rather relevant for Greece, we thought that this is a fine excuse for a hot coffee and a deep dive into albums with frozen sound like Winter… Death Metal the sub-genre that has been related with two main countries America and Sweden.
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