EMBRIONAL - Absolutely Anti-human Behaviours (OLD TEMPLE - CD 2012)
It’s not gonna be an exaggeration if I say that
I’ve been waiting for years for this album to come! Yeah, I’m a fan of
Embrional’s music ever since I got their first demo “Cusp of Evil” in 2006 and
since then I’ve been trying to support the band as much as I could and been
watching them, waiting for more recordings. The “Annihilation” demo 2007 was a
cruel death metal massacre and then the split with Empheris was just awesome,
but I was hungry for more and at the same time I was quite disappointed that
such a killer band does not get as much recognition as they truly deserve! I
mean, how many maniacs from outside of Poland know about Embrional at all? And
the years were passing by and there was no sign of a full length album from the
band! I already started to think that they’re been cursed or something, but
finally the news about “Absolutely Anti-human Behaviours” came! It was about
time, for fuck sake, I didn’t want to wait until I’m 60 years old to listen to
another recording from this amazing band! Of course one may say that the
quality should prevail over quantity and in the case of Embrional it does work,
as only four recordings in six years is not much, but they’re all killer… Also
one may say that when the appetite grows and grows, the better the feast is.
But what can I do, if I’m so inpatient? Anyway, I was also quite disappointed
that it is Old Temple Records, who handles the release of “Absolutely
Anti-human Behaviours”. Well, I have nothing against Eryk’s label, as he’s
doing a fine, but very limited job. I don’t know whether he’s going to be able
to push Embrional as far as the band truly deserves it! His financial
possibilities are very limited, so is his distribution… But who knows, maybe
he’ll go a good job? I hope it’s going to be better than what he did for
Abusiveness, whose excellent last album didn’t really surfaced outside of
Poland. We’ll see.
Trust me, “Absolutely Anti-human Behaviours” is
worth getting. This is just a massacring, annihilating death metal slaughter,
of the best quality possible. Embrional takes a lot of credit from the top US
based death metal bands – Immolation, Incantation, Morbid Angel and Nile to
name just a few, but taking influences from them do not bring them any shame,
as the way they composed and performed their songs is just top notch and truly
excellent. “Absolutely Anti-human Behaviours” offers very thick, dense portion
of nuclear force, which is tight death metal riffing, accompanied by very fast
drumming and raspy growls of Marcin. The music tends to be quite technical and
complex in many parts, but luckily Embrional does not cross the line, after
which the music gets too complex and annoying. They don’t put thirty riffs per
minute, often making sure that the music is more varied, with slower parts,
even some melodic guitar leads and first and foremost, there’s a dark and grim
atmosphere present all the time. Even if some of these riffs are quite complex
and almost weird, in its technically advanced playing, Embrional still gets
them right, often they’re almost catchy and thus their death metal do not
belongs to the group of bands, which play fast and brutal just for the sake of
being extreme.
There are many memorable riffs on “Absolutely
Anti-human Behaviours”, like in “Bestial Torture”, which may start with fast
and relentless part, but soon slows down rapidly and offers even an impressive
harmonious guitar lead. On the other occasion Embrional putted an acoustic
fragment into their song, what – I have no idea why – reminds me Immortal hehe!
So, there are plenty of excellent and awesome songs on “Absolutely Anti-human
Behaviours” and it is really hard, if possible at all, to point out, which the
best fragments of the whole album are. But definitely, when I listen to such
riffs, as the opening theme of “Dismal Sign”, then I just can say that I love
it and just bang my skull when listening to it. This one actually reminds me Gojira
a lot, would you believe? And that excellent solo in the mid part of this
track… Yeah, Embrional does show how good musicians and composers they are and
definitely “Absolutely Anti-human Behaviours” belongs to my favourite death
metal albums in the history of Polish death metal at all!!!!!! There’s really
nothing bad I can say about it. The production on it is just top quality, very
dense, brutal, very energetic and powerful, much better than what you could
hear on the band’s previous recordings, which had a rawer and more underground
sound. Here everything sounds just awesome, each drum part and guitar riff are
like a thunder and napalm bomb and the vocals of Marcin – who again sounds
quite close to Ross Dolan – are just superb. On top of all that, “Absolutely
Anti-human Behaviours” has quite cool front cover and the foldout booklet is
also something extra. Arggghhh, no way I’m going to let this CD leave my stereo
soon… Definitely “Absolutely Anti-human Behaviours” belongs to the best Polish
and not just Polish death metal albums and I cannot recommend it enough to you.
Buy or die, listen to it, bang your head, break the crosses and read some
excellent vicious lyrics. 666.
Final rate: 95/100
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