Band:	Estuary
Album:	To Exist And Endure
Style:	Death metal, Thrash metal
Release date:	June 18, 2004
A review by:	Undercraft

01. To Exist...
02. Soul Scarred Captives
03. Draining The Deptor
04. Of Weakening Stone
05. Woven Denial
06. The Evershielding
07. Flesh And Blood Dilemma
08. Silence And Mind
09. Riding The Tides Of Malice
10. ...To Endure

Female-growling Death Metal madness!

I did a review of an early material of this band a while ago, I think a couple of years or one year ago, the one thing that stuck in my mind about this band was the fact that the vocalist was originally from Bolivia, a neighbour country of Peru.
Other thing I remembered was that Estuary was a Death Metal band, and had a female vocalist on their ranks, and she could growl more deeper and louder than a man! Yup, this is the band.

Now I have the band's full-length, released by Ibex Moon Records, and I must say that the evolution is amazing, because I didn't remembered how aggressive and ass-kicking this band was.

Female vocalist Zdenka Prado still kicks as much ass as she did on their previous effort, is almost impossible to know she's a woman, her grunts are way much better than any female growler.

Audio-visually the band has improved also, the whole layout and cover art is quite good, and the production is well done also. Musically the band plays Death Metal with some melodic leads here and there, so don't expect mere brutality over here. The band used to have some Black Metal influences, but in this album they're all gone.

The songs range from technical pieces to head-banging ones, other songs are well elaborated and have nice arrangements, like "The Evershielding".
For Thrash-influenced songs check out "Flesh Blood Dilemma" and "Riding The Tides Of Malice" (the latter one was included in their previous Ep of the same name)

Death Metal fans should listen this out, features 10 heart-pounding songs with growling female madness and some nice arrangements. Definitively worth checking out.