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Unlike most new bands I’ve been listening to lately, Ered comes from Spain. After a few demo’s (of which one was released under a label) they managed to scrape enough material together for their first full-length CD. Curiously, the previous demo was released under label, and the current debut album isn’t. The metallers from Spain provide us with a mixture of Death and Black metal, seemingly in the line of bands like Behemoth. First up on the album is a song called “The Fissure”, which, after a short period of tremolo picking, picks up the double blast beats Black Metal is famous for. Though this returning true black metal part covers a big part of the song, it stays quite versatile. It mixes different extreme genres and twists them into Ered’s own style. The term “extreme” seems to stand at the centre of this album, with the versatility making it a pleasure to listen to. The title song doesn’t add many new faces to this album, but simply continues where the first song left off. “Chapter Zero” starts with a priest chanting, something I’ve heard before in the black metal scene (Nattefrost). The song itself is quite epic compared to the former material, and I would have enjoyed the song more if it wasn’t for this chanting which interferes with the music more than adding something to it in my opinion.
One of the best songs on the album has to be “Black Hole Emotions”. It combines the epic parts of black metal with the heavy guitar riffs from death metal without creating an extreme mess rather than an extreme music style. Though I’ve never been a real fan of growling continuously throughout a complete album, it doesn’t seem to bother me all that much this time. The following songs do not add a whole lot to the album, except for more extreme music, going into all the corners of the death and black metal scene. Ered’s versatile extreme music is quite recommendable to most fans of black and death metal, though you should definitely be open to a mixture of these two. Not only was their logo surprisingly readable, the music itself seemed to pass my ears without any real downsides to this album, though the double blast beats are sometimes a little unnecessary.
| Tracklist |
| 1. The Fissure |
| 2. Born In A Frozen Hell |
| 3. Chapter Zero |
| 4. Black Hole Emotions |
| 5. Under The Influence Of The Mountain |
| 6. Black Leather And Blood |
| 7. Storm Of Revenge |
| 8. Of Blasphemy And Torment |
: 35.48
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