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Once, there was this great Mysticum who have (effectively) showed us the use of Drum Computer and all that. These days, thousand of bands were using it already. Many would fail; many can impress us, while some use drum computers and keep it to still sound like a human drummer (what’s the use?!). Italian quartet, Urshurlark (can you spell it right?!), doesn’t make any impression but only an opinion made for the over use of speeding snares, barking vocals, and lame guitars. Musically, this is just TOO FAST (the drums, of course!) and no longer sounds like any other fast and aggressive Metal band, but more like an experimental (or) noise project blend with a small melodies on the rhythm side. Keyboard lines provide all of the appearing rhythms, for example… and rhythm guitars can’t be heard that much as it is more like a buzzing chainsaw (black metal?) caught in Sunlight with a severely drunk sound engineer. The music is so faceless, and can’t be interpreted as any hateful one but only as an overused speed made by a band. Imagine Baltak executing twice or thrice the speed of all his albums and you’ll get Urshurlark, ha! This is too much, and this is no longer “extreme”, if you ask me. The “brutality” appearing is somewhat very boring (too), the longer you listen on the disc the more chance for you to skip tracks – and I don’t like doing that myself. Of course, the monotonous vision here is highly present… what more can you expect on such a band with virtual drummers, anyway. Now, going back to the band’s use of Casio (as mentioned earlier) – they are somehow very useful as the said instrument were responsible enough on making an immense cloud here and there. Covering all the entirety of the band: guitars can’t be heard, and fingers can’t be seen! It seems that technology has really risen, and spoiling its given nature doesn’t do anything good but as another cyber waste. I don’t want to foresee that this is the future of “extreme music”, because I believe that there was still a load of fairly good ideas coming out while using modern technology. For a direction, Urshurlark, is a band that can afford to combine cosmic ‘soundscapes’ (with weird long titles) and super-fast ‘metal’ – but the utter acceptance for this idea is too unfavorable. Of course, aggression is all over here and there – but that is with boundaries. In my side, there is. I’m sure things can appeal to someone else, ‘though.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Triumphant In Pandemonium |
| 2. Hallucinated Messiah |
| 3. Excellent Art Of Cruelty |
| 4. Decade Of The Tyrant |
| 5. A Puzzle Of Flesh |
| 6. Solar - Execution - Eclipse |
| 7. At The Palace Of Moloch |
| 8. AntiChrist Maniac |
: 52.09
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