Summon - Parazv Il Zilittv review
Band: | Summon |
Album: | Parazv Il Zilittv |
Release date: | April 2018 |
01. Whisper Of The Black Moon
02. Howling Graves
03. Cvlt Of Abomination
04. Shapes Of Darkness Transcending
05. Below Death Splenddovr
06. Parazv Il Zilittv
07. Impetvovs Sacrifice Of Thy Womb
08. In Odorem Mortis
09. ... From Beyond
It's a death metal album released by Iron Bonehead Productions. You already know what to expect. Or do you?
Look no further than the cover art and you're sure as hell not gonna mistake it for a funk record. Everything about it, from the cover to the logo to the label to the track titles and the album's run time, screams death metal. Definitely not the tech kind, likely more cavern-core. So Summon's debut album, Parazv Il Zilittv should be pretty straightforward. And for the most part it is.
The whole album starts predictably with an atmosphere-setting ambient track and the second track brings forth that sweet death metal riff. One thing becomes obvious, and that is that besides the riffage, there is also a great deal of emphasis on the atmosphere, which is done both through the mid-to-slow pace of the album and through the dissonant sound of the guitar's distortion, but, most of all, the way the vocals are mixed. While most death or doom or black metal albums would put the vocals upfront or at least in a position where their presence is more in your face, Summon prefer to use vocals in a more ambient way. That is to say, instead of feeling like they are sung by a frontman, it feels like the air and the earth and the fire that surround you are the source of the demonic whispers. And yes, they're closer to whispers than screams and shrieks and growls, or at least they feel that way.
The music does root itself in death, but with loads of doom and black influence. Riffs range from really slow, like in "Below Death Splenddovr" to almost punk-ish in "Cvlt Of Abomination" to the constant blast-beats in "Impetvovs Sacrifice Of Thy Womb". The production is a bit odd regarding everything but the vocals - the cymbals especially sound very weird - but Summon make up for it with the guitars and the vocals and the occasional soundscape.
While not reinventing the cavernous death metal wheel in any way, the riffs and the vocals on this album make it an excellent entry in the occult-infused and atmospheric side of the genre.
| Written on 25.05.2018 by Doesn't matter that much to me if you agree with me, as long as you checked the album out. |
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