Band:	Ashura
Album:	Dawn To Your Wasting Away
Style:	Death metal
Release date:	February 11, 2005
A review by:	Jeff

01. Able To The Worst
02. Ashura
03. Burn Your God
04. Dans Le Cercle
05. In Nothing We trust
06. Shade Of Madness
07. The World Must Collapse
08. L'enfer Des Ames Souillées
09. Waiting For Armagedon
10. Crystal Mountain [Death cover]

If you would like to find the perfect mix between Grindcore, Brutal Death and even Melodic Death maybe that I just found something for you. "Dawn To Your Wasting Away" the first album of the young powerful Death Metal act from France Ashura is actually a good compromise between all those different musical styles.

That's the good point of "Dawn To Your Wasting Away", the band knew how to do a real mix between violence and technicality. This album can be really violent, fast and aggressive on a side, with some reminiscences of Grind Core (especially because of the power of the drums lines) and on the other side, it's really technical. The guitarist Geoffroy Lebon is an impressive musician who can play a lot of interesting guitars solos that give something more to the music of the band.

Actually Ashura play a really nice technical Brutal Death Metal and "Dawn To Your Wasting Away" is a really nice start for the band that only suffers actually of the lack of originality. Brutal Death that's not something really new but it's well done and above all promising for the future of Ashura. The song "Ashuraô" for example is a real killer with an excellent catchy riff and a delicious break in the middle of the track, on the other hand "Shade Of Madness" with its arpeggio and some lyrical vocals is a really nice and original surprise. AS you can understand the album is varied and it's a really nice point for me.

The production is excellent, the musicians are talented no really it's a good start for the band and one more time Thundering Records found a little promising combo that will probably finish in the top 10 of the best French newcomers of the year 2005. If you like such music at least you must know that you should have a look on this album. It deserves it.