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Phoebe's
Phobia is a very young band from Lancashire, Great Britain, that wasn't
formed until the year 2000 by a man named Kirk Houghton. The band claims to
have been influenced by bands as diverse as Faith No More, Celtic Frost,
Morbid Angel, My Dying Bride and thrash metal in general. I can't say I hear
any Faith No More in the music presented on this demo but I guess you can find
traces of all the others. The demo was recorded on a four track cassette
recorder in order to recapture the sound Celtic Frost had on their legendary
"Morbid Tales" album. I think this was a mistake because the sound is really
awful at times. The music actually sounds pretty good though except for the
catastrophic vocals which sounds like Fenriz with a frog in the throat. The
vocals is the only thing that sounds like black metal though since the music
itself is very thrash metal oriented with some slower doomier tendencies now
and then. This band will have to improve especially two things in the future -
first off the production needs to be better and second the songs have to be
more coherent and fluent. They have a long road to walk but they are also a
very young band so they have an interesting future in front of them I think.
The highlights of this demo are the cover version of Celtic Frost's
"Dethroned Emperor" and the slow Opeth passage of the last
track.
| Tracklist |
1. Abby's |
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Flesh 2. The Slain Pop Star Sprawled Out On A Monolith At |
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Stonehenge 3. Not From LA 4. Dethroned Emperor 5. |
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Disconsolate Reality |
: 18 minu
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