Band:	Pure Sweet Hell
Album:	The Voyeurs Of Utter Destruction As Beauty
Style:	Progressive thrash metal
Release date:	2003
A review by:	Undercraft

01. Innocence And The Beast
02. Scared About Everything
03. Golgotha On My Mind
04. Swallow
05. Undone
06. Gehenna
07. Hangfire
08. Rave Song
09. Take Away
10. The Killers
11. What Your Pain Is
12. Beautiful Suicide
13. Dr. Death

Eclectic and chaotic: bad formula

This album turned some heads back when it was released in 2003, so I've decided to take a look at this so I can figure out what was all the fuzz about.

(insert 2 days break here)

After several listens I'm not getting this album, and it's making me mad!

(insert 3 hours break here)

Another spin to the Cd, and I can tell this is not my cup of tea! I really wanted to like this Cd but is just too chaotic, too diverse and damn weird.
Pure Sweet Hell is the project from Nevermore drummer Van Williams, he handles the vocals and the drums on this release, while Christ Eichhorn does the rest.

The album is a variety of styles merged in on album, you can hear Death, Thrash, Gothic and Black Metal in one song, while in other one you can hear Metalcore, Death Metal and even some electronic samples. This mix makes the album sound chaotic and is quite disorientating to hear it all in one spin.

The main problem with the Cd is that these guys have this plethora of genres and try to merge them into one song, tempo changes, breaks, different vocal styles? sure, sounds like a great idea right? But sadly, I think these 2 gentlemen failed in the song-writing area.

Still, if you feel adventurous and you're open minded about experimentation, I could recommend this one, but I warn you, this is a very difficult bite to swallow, because I consider myself very open minded with these kind of stuff, but this is definitively not working for me.