Desire - Crowcifix - review
Desire - Crowcifix - review
Tracklist
01. White Falling Room02. Funeral Doomentia
03. Frozen Heart... Lonely Soul [live]
A review by
KwonVerge October 14, 2010
It's been a long time since we last heard of something new from them and during 2009 a new EP saw the light of dawn, Crowcifix. Desire definitely have a huge crush on crows since they have been related to folklore and legends concerning death, ominous signs etc, quite a doom metal bird dare I say!
So, Crowcifix, an interesting blending of words that is being depicted on the gloomy cover artwork in the most appropriate way, an ideal visual aspect of their sound, moving in beauteous and poetic melodic doom/death metal soundscapes. The EP consists of three compositions, two of them being new and one live version of "Frozen Heart... Lonely Soul" which is quite good actually, showing a glimpse of the band's on stage legacy.
Everything's in place, from the slow-paced mourning guitar riffing with some faster but still heavily burdened melodic moments to the floating, imposing and at the same time devout keyboard passages. The rhythm sections lends groove and especially on the drumming factor you will find many interesting ideas instead of a dry interpretation. Tear's vocals range from deep to more shrieking grunts concealing all tranquility in an unerring expressive manner, with some cleaner ones making their appearance at times.
Crowcifix brings Desire back in the game and since we know that the band works on new material that will lead to their third full-length release "White Falling Room's" melancholy and "Funeral Doomentia's" sense of grandeur give the best of promises for another manifestation of sincere beauty and suffering.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 9 |
| Originality: | 7 |
| Production: | 8 |
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This is in fact a very good review for a very good album from Desire. Nice 1 mate.
---- Beware the Shadows of Dusk
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Posts: 5068 Written by Vonpire on 14.10.2010 at 21:09 thanks man  can't wait for the new album to come out 
---- Dec. 30, 1334. ...And the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on.
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A nice ep this. Hopefully their new album, whenever that will be released, is as good. Shame they are without a record label and that this ep is self released.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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Posts: 5068 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 14.10.2010 at 22:29 Yeah, they are way too good to be label-less 
---- Dec. 30, 1334. ...And the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on.
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Posts: 40071 Written by KwonVerge on 14.10.2010 at 22:40 Good band but not the best from Portugal. That honour goes to Process Of Guilt 
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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I checked out this EP back in September, and was also surprised they didn't have a label. "Funeral Doomentia" is just great.
---- "After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley
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Great band hope they find a good label and give us a new cd
---- A Servant in Heaven A King in Hell
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