Catarsis Incarne - Katharma - review
Catarsis Incarne - Katharma - review
Tracklist
01. Falsos Hijos Del Sol02. Yo Me Cree
03. Katharma 12 (Exhumacion De Abya Yala)
04. Insinuacion Insidiosa
05. A ABADtir
06. Condena
07. Subconsciente 1010011010
08. Ausencia Total De Materia
A review by
wormdrink414 October 27, 2011
Katharma never really comes together and the genre-tampering on this ultimately feels half-assed. Sure, it has a number catchy and evil sounding riffs (listen to "Auscencia Total" and "Subconsciente 10001110101") and pretty savage vocals, but everything comes out sounding directionless and vacuous by the end. Either the stylistically unorthodox approach will kill songs before they can really get rolling, or the absurdly sanitized production will.
And that's a bummer. Like with so many other young, unsigned death metal groups, there's a lot of skill to be heard on this. And, icing on the top, doesn't seem like Catarsis set out to please the Neanderthal-lite death metal fans who fold their arms and scowl at shows when genre-staples aren't being tortured on stage--the "these guys don't sound like Deicide... man, fuck these guys" guys. But there just isn't enough meat on this album. Catarsis know how important riffs to make listeners want to sprint around with boar thighs and blunt weapons in their hands with death metal are, and they know the importance of being unique, but they didn't execute their shit very well on this. It just feels over-produced and over-planned by the end.
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Posts: 1295 Written by [user id=4365] on 27.10.2011 at 13:35 Hypothetically, if a reviewer were to take a tech death group's word that what they play is thrashy death metal, even when it's clearly tech death on their album, but somehow totally misses that during the two times he listens to it, is he a fuckwit? Hypothetically... Seriously, I don't know how I botched that. It seems a lot more tampering-y if you insist on calling it plain death. But it's obviously tech... The occasional filler threw me off, but Ob(Servant) is one of my favorite tech albums and that thing is practically one third filler.  Stick by the overall argument though. The album has a number of good chunky bits, but just feels empty each time I finish it.
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Account deleted Written by wormdrink414 on 27.10.2011 at 21:52 Not necessarily. I had to review a few bands I'd never heard of and who had practically no information on them, including description of their genre and I found extremely hard to decide on what it was, even when the answer was pretty obvious. Basically I'm saying you can know a lot of about metal and not always be able to pin down what they are, especially if you're reviewing it as there's additional pressure to critique and analyse it. Still though, this band doesn't sound like most tech-death bands, most of them are a-change-a-second tech nonsense so it'd be pretty easy to overlook the "tech" aspects of these guys. It is a sterile album that's for sure.
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In spite of the low rating and everything negative you pointed out, I'm still curious about this one. :/ Who knows, maybe it's the cover art, which - as stated by JOOE - is some good stuff.
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Posts: 21306 Written by [user id=4365] on 27.10.2011 at 22:57 Nice! (Also, I liked their last album. Not the EP, the full-length.)
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