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Demolish - Remembering The Cabalisticae Laments review



Reviewer:
8.0
Band: Demolish
Album: Remembering The Cabalisticae Laments
Style: Death metal
Release date: 2005
A review by: Herzebeth


01. Intro/Bird's Homesick
02. Lunar Blaze
03. Lament's From The Lamb
04. Warriors Of The Snow
05. Withered Skin
06. False Illusion
07. Into Cabalisticarum
08. The Malleus Maleficarum
09. Fortalisium
10. Eternal God
11. Exodo XX
12. Ocult The Apoteosis
13. Aleph

You can't lose with a label like "American Line Productions", I've reviewed more than 6 albums from that line and luckily I haven't had a bad experience with any of those CD's; Demolish is no exception, again I'm hearing a really decent album with Death and Doom overtones, a really interesting release, of course as I already said, product of American Line Productions.

The music is actually very interesting, weird in some cases, but interesting none the less. Demolish sounds a lot like that awesome band from Ireland called "Mourning Beloveth", but for those who do not know that band let me put it this way, Demolish is a mixture between the atmospheres from Type O Negative, the riffs from Amon Amarth, and the feelings and vocals from Dark Lunacy (with less symphonic bits though), so as you may see Demolish creates fascinating music as I already said.

The album actually comes in 2 acts or bits; the first one (track 1 to 7) is "Reinforcement Laments from the Lamb" and the second bit (track 8 to 13) is "Artis Cabalisticae" (by the way both parts were albums someday in 1995 and 1996). There are several good tracks, many for the songwriting, other tracks have brilliant riffing, the drumming is marvelous in most tunes, but there is one masterpiece in "Remembering The Cabalisticae Laments", "False Illusion"; The 6th track opens with a really catchy riff, then the vocal work appears bashing the atmosphere incredibly, some intermezzos break the feelings here and there, etc. In general it's a really good tune; even the lyrics are great and insanely deep, in fact I really do not understand what this guy is trying to express, he mentions some Fire Mountains and Rocks of Steel?I mean just read the chorus "Under the sun is the death, Under the sun exists magic" ok whatever.

A very decent release indeed, the production is very clean, even the bass-lines sound really independent from the drums, so that's very good. If you are a big fan of Doom/Death metal, find this album right away, you won't be disappointed I'm sure.

Written by Herzebeth | 16.09.2005





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