Tuesday 6 November 2018

Review: Tyrannic (Australia) - Ethereal Sepulchre

Tyrannic (Australia) - Ethereal Sepulchre, CD.
I have been speaking with the guy of the band and waiting this promo stuff since 666 centuries ago. So, it finally arrived to the morbid crypts almost 2 months later!!! Once I open the pack, I was fucking near to damage the cover, because the pack was almost tight. Hopefully my rusty blade is fucked and don´t cut anything... The first you can see in the cover are 3 bastards maniacs in a cemetery in some kind of desecration ritual; at least I guess so. The stuff comes in something like digipack, but flat. I have like this presentation. Colors you perceive are in deadly purple. I guess covers in this way looks fucking nice!!! Once you open the CD, you can find some metallic handwritten font, beside some primitive skulls and bats. Going to the noise unleashed, I would call this a kind of blackened/doomed deathrash. Did you have heard something before??? I guess it is not common. Even currently in the over saturated Metal scene, when we have 66666666666666666666666666666666666 bands on earth and hell, even nobody know where the fuck to find, even internet being not totally useful to know what is going on and that; even currently with much bands being just clones of others, even fucking dressing themselves as fucking clowns, only imitating "the old bands" and that... Even having bands that only pray cult to the elder legends (don´t get me wrong, I don´t want "new things", but classical), I guess Tyrannic shows us that is possible to get a touch of originality, at least when it comes to take elements from different styles and mix them properly. What you can hear here is a bestial raw deathrash noise, but with much doomy touches; even in some place I have heard something very close to a summoning of Black Sabbath. Riffs are raw with some funereal passages, not only "slow" but giving a sensation of total perdition. Vocals are as expected in extreme Metal bands (but there are something like clean voices that I don´t really like, fortunately for my morbid ears, these voices are very few; only in 1 songs if I´m not wrong), drums strikes deadly when it should do that and being slow and hard as a mortal hammer when it should. Even being a "raw" band, not complex riffs or that -what I always want of course-, I can say they have a lot of changes and some songs seems a bit long (more or a bit lesss than 10 minutes? Having only 4 songs it reaches near to 40 minutes). However, because it has a lot of changes, you won´t turn fucking bored. It is a bestial voyage to damnation!!! If you ask me for more references, beside Black Sabbath for the slow/other touches, I would mention early Sodom and also early Sepultura. They also have some bit of melodic sound, here or there, where I would say they have summoned a sinister spirit of an evil Iron Maiden. For sure this band is praying for the cult of the classics, with some interesting touch of originality. I would highly recommend this piece of Metal for those that want something extreme as usual to be expected in my zine, but at the same time with some obscure and slow passages, which gives the enough originality or own personality to this Australian band!!!