Arachnophobia keeps bringing
all those new bands and new projects from the pits of the Polish underground
and they surely must be praised for bringing to the light some truly
exceptional names. Last weeks brought us two new such discoveries – one is called
Sigihl and other one is Eerie. And about the latter and their debut „Into
Everlasting Death” I will write couple of words now. I’ve read somewhere that
this is an easy going album.. Ha, it wasn’t for me! I really had some struggles
with „Into Everlasting Death”, as I just couldn’t really decide if I like it or
not, what really bothers me in the music of Eerie and I could not make my final
judgement straight away. Probably if someone gave me a dead line and told that
I must review it on the first day when I started to listen to „Into Everlasting
Death”, then I suppose my review would be quite negative. Of course I didn’t
review it straight away, I never do and instead I decided to take few days,
give several listens, at some point I even putted it aside for couple of days and
then returned to it… all that to see, if „Into Everlasting Death” has really that
something, that spark! Well, now I can say that I am still far from being truly
enthusiastic about Eerie’s debut, I cannot say that this album is such an
instant killer like Odraza or Abusiveness who blew me away from day one… But it’s
not bad either. My opinion has to be one of those “yes, it’s a good album,
BUT…”…
Generally Eerie performs sort
of nihilistic black metal and I usually like such music a lot. But maybe in
case of Eerie, there’s not enough quailty to impress me fully. This is one of those
black metal albums, which are taking the old classic formulas, but on the other
hand are using much broader influences. Of course we can’t say that Eerie
discovered something new, because nowadays there are quite few similar black
metal acts. The style / sound of this music has progressed incredibly over the
past years, also towards something what we can find on „Into Everlasting
Death”, so it is nothing new, but still surely exciting and adventurous. It may
be unfair for Eerie to place them in a box so quickly, but this is inevitable
for young bands (luckily though the band didn’t make “hooded” photos hehe!). So,
we have here only four, long songs, with rich structures, some complex
arrangements, not an easy or primitive means… Surely, they are not songs, which
you can memorize easily and are far from being catchy. They do have some melodic
accents, but it’s also harsh and uncompromising. More so, the band creates such
sick, dark atmosphere, which often is almost hypnotizing. There are many impressive
riffs or particular fragments and it’s also interesting that while most of
similar acts would rather use slower, maybe doomy tempos, Eerie doesn’t avoid
fast, blasting parts and such can be found on the album quite often. Listen to
such “Of Descending Moon” as the most obvious, but not the only, example. But
there’s a lot of diversity in this music as well, which you can especially hear
in “Among the Ashes”, which by the way is my least favourite song from this
album, I think it’s just boring a bit and I am happy than this is the only such
slower song here.
So, what went wrong for Eerie,
if I say that I am far from being utterly impressed? Well, I suppose it’s just that
feeling, which tells you it’s an average album, nothing more. I just can’t feel
that excitement or something truly remarkable in it. This music often flows and
runs by without making any damage, being too indifferent… It’s fine, it’s
decent and listenable, but nothing more than that. I must say also that I am
happy that there are just four songs and little over 30 minutes of music. If it
was longer, then it would just be boring. Finally, I have some doubts about
some vocals here… The vocals on „Into Everlasting Death” are generally quite
varied, V.O.W.O.C., who’s responsible for them, is using many different
expressions, he has harsh vocals, screams and some more cleaner singing too… I understand
the idea, but I don’t like some of his arrangements, some of the voices he
uses, especially those cleaner ones… I simply can’t get used to them, they’re
annoying and destroy otherwise a good fragment of music.
So, to resume… it’s good that
these 30 minutes are all we get. I give this album 69/100, I don’t think Eerie
deserves more, maybe I am actually more generous that I should… My opinion is
that it’s slightly more than mediocre, nothing else than that.
Final rate: 69/100
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