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Amaran is a new Swedish band that was formed in the spring of
2000 with the aim set at taking the concept of metal into the 21st century. I
don't know for sure how well they have succeeded in doing this but they have
at least created something very unusual and different from what most other
bands do. This is probably due to the fact that the members come from many
different musical backgrounds including blues, hip-hop, death metal and jazz.
The music actually reminds a little of Alas, the new project from Erik Rutan
(Morbid Angel) and Martina Hornbacher Astner (Therion). It has a thick jazzy
atmosphere that saturates the heavy distorted guitar sound throughout the
whole album. Even though the female vocalist Johanna De Pierre doesn't have a
voice as strong as Martina's of Alas it is not that far from it. We are used
to hearing power and death metal bands coming out of Sweden but Amaran is a
fresh new breath of air. If they don't stagnate but keep on developing to get
a little tighter then it would be a big surprise to me if they wouldn't start
receiving some label offers soon.
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