PYRE - Human Hecatomb (Reforestation Records - MC 2014)
Russian metal – Russian death
metal especially – until recently was not existing for me. My opinion was that
there’re not good bands at all, just a pile of garbage. Luckily things change
and quite few really good names appeared there like The Prophet, Chamber of
Torture, Trigger or Grond. But my favourite stuff comes from band called Pyre.
Damn, this band is awesome. I already collected couple of vinyl releases of
them: killer “Ravenous Decease” MLP and split with Entrapment – they were both
excellent. And then Pyre released their debut album “Human Hecatomb” through
Mexican Chaos Records. And yes, it is again a brilliant release, I love it,
it’s my favourite recording from Pyre so far, but for fuck sake! How come
there’s no vinyl version available anywhere in Europe?!! How come I have to buy
fucking cassette to listen to it, while I really wanna LP? It’s another reason
why I am always so sceptical about some of these more exotic record labels, which
even if release good stuff then have shit distribution. Anyway, I hope that one
day a vinyl will end up in my collection. And until then I have to play the
cassette version released through Reforestation Records in 200 copies
limitation.
And believe me, it is a pure
pleasure to listen to this album. In my opinion Pyre is among the best bands,
which play that old school death metal with strong Swedish influence. You know,
we have Undead Creep in Italy, Brutally Deceased in Czech, The Dead Goats in
Poland, Graveyard in Spain and Revel in Flesh (and dozens more haha) in
Germany… and Russia has Pyre. These are the best bands from this style in my
opinion (not counting the Swedish hordes now though!). You can expect all the
classic ingredients on “Human Hecatomb”; there’s nice melody, aggression, dark
atmosphere and most of all, there’re simply killer, fantastic riffage. You
know, as I mentioned many times before, I don’t care about the music being
original or if someone calls it a trend and that there are many similar bands
at that time. Why would I give a crap? The music is either good or bad, nothing
else should matter. I don’t care if it was heard before and if Dismember
recorded “Like an Ever Flowing Stream” in 1991. And I hate opinions like “oh, I
have original, why would I care about a copy?”. Oghhhh, fuck off. This is 2015
and it’s awesome to listen to so brilliantly done death metal album in the old
school way. It’s like fresh blood and besides, how many times can we listen to
“LAEFS” or “Left Hand Path”, right?
To me “Human Hecatomb” is
filled with great songs and killer stuff. Basically through the entire album
the band avoided fillers and mediocrity. There are many memorable, catchy parts
and fantastic songs like “Far Beyond the Unknown”, “Last Nail in Your Coffin” and
“Disturbia”, there’s aggressive and quite fast death metal like “Merciless
Disease“, “Under the Death Reign” (but even that song contains such an amazing
melodic part, with just fantastic harmonious leads… I love it). Most
importantly, the whole music was played with passion, enthusiasm and energy
that blows out 99% of similar albums ever recorded.
If you ever have a chance to
buy a vinyl, buy two – one for me haha! Amazing album, killer band, I love it!
I only hope that my interview with them will be completed soon also!!!
Standout tracks: “Far Beyond
the Unknown”, “Disturbia”, “Last Nail in Your Coffin”, “Merciless Disease”,
“Under the Death Reign”
Final rate: 85/100
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