MORTHUS - The Abyss (Self financed CD 2014)
Just
look at that! What a sign of times it is that a complete newcomer and unknown
band is able to self release their demo (or they called it an EP??) in such
professional and cool way! Nowadays you simply don’t need a big budget and
record label behind you to have a CD or digipack financed. Of course it also
means that every crap can be now released “officially” and this way the scene
is flooded with millions of anonymous bands, anonymous EPs / albums or
whatever, of which many are probably totally worthless, but that’s not
something what really takes away sleep from me. If there are such
possibilities, then it’s nothing wrong that people take the chance and use it…
and if the music sucks, then even the best packaging won’t help and that CD shall
be flashed in the toiled. Here is a band called Morthus, which is quite young
Polish band and they just really nicely self released their three tracker
titled “The Abyss”. Quality digipack, great artwork… all looks really nice here,
so congrats to the band for having such a cool idea for the digipack! Luckily
for the band, the music is also decent and good enough, so it is not a wasted
money and time!
I’m
not saying that “The Abyss” impressed and crushed me totally. No, it’s not that
good, but I am also far from saying it is worthless. I actually really like
this demo, I like these songs and the whole experience when listening to “The
Abyss” was more than positive. Sure, Morthus is still rather a second league
band, kind of mediocre, but when I listen to their music I can see a lot of
potential to become something better and better and it’s worthy not only to
listen to “The Abyss” and enjoy three quite good songs, but it’s also worthy to
remember the band name, ‘cause who knows what will they be capable of in the
future? Musically it is quite melodic death metal, with a small hint of black
metal a’la Sweden. I guess I can say that such Dissection, especially from
“Reinkaos” LP, was a great influence for Morthus… just listen to “In the White
Wolf’s Kingdom”, which I think is the best track here. But really all three
songs from “The Abyss” are good, maybe sometimes too melodic for my taste (yeah
hehe!) and sometimes I would prefer some faster, more aggressive and crushing
stuff, but what the hell… it is definitely good enough to enjoy several
listens. What else… good production, some cool riffs (like the opening old
school theme for “Beast from the Abyss”), nice vocals arrangements and song
structures, divided between more aggressive and melodic stuff... Morthus has
everything people like in this sort of playing. So, keep your eyes open for the
future of this young band.
Final
rate: 70/100
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