Augury - Concealed - review
Augury - Concealed - review
Tracklist
01. Beatus02. ...Ever Know Peace Again
03. Cosmic Migration
04. Nocebo
05. Alien Shores
06. In Russian Dolls Universes
07. Becoming God
08. The Lair Of Purity
09. From Eden Estranged...
10. ...As Sea Devours Land
A review by
Jeff March 02, 2006
Augury plays a great Progressive Death Metal. Violent as hell their music can be "sweet" too and I will try to do my best to do a good description, even if it won't be easy actually. So, the music of Augury is clearly oriented toward brutal Death Metal, you know with super strong riffs, powerful vocals and super fast double bass drums. But on the other hand the music is really technical with a lot of amazing soli and arpeggio everywhere, believe me or not we're not far of Progressive Metal sometime but without this bad "only for intelectual" feeling that we can find sometime. The songs are complex ok but not boring at all... We can even find some really good acoustic and melodic breaks (a la Opeth) on "The Lair of Purity" or "Nocebo" for example. Also, the band uses some symphonic female choirs, don't worry however, they don't overuse it and Arianne with her really beautiful voice, sings only on some passages of some songs. This opposition between brutality and sweetness is well done and gives an original touch the music of the band.
The production is also really good, Augury doesn't suffer of any comparison with the master of the Death Metal scene from Canada. Like them, they have a perfect sound and they knew how to produce music that it is impossible to listen to somewhere else. Believe me, when you have the luck to listen to a lot of new bands everyday, which in general only know how to do uncolored copycats, damn it's really refreshing.
If you like Canadian Death Metal, if you're a fan of "weird" bands like Cynic or Atheist, don't miss this killer album!!! Seriously this is a great surprise and I understand now why we talk a lot about Augury in Canada. They're super promising and this release is just brilliant. Try "Concealed" and like me, I'm sure that you'll follow attentively the future of this really good band.
Written by Jeff | March 02, 2006
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This album is awesome. Good Review. EDIT - The new album is taking so very long.
---- "It's a dangerous business, going out of your door, You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." - J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is Company," The Lord of the Rings
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What can i say abuot this band, excellent ejecution in all instruments of course including the mix of voices just amazed, is the perfection of an higher level of musicians.. very few bands like them, but very few, so seruis in their work , of course hoping more and hoping the next album...agree with Valar it havebeen a while since the psot of the next album
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They had a couple of line up changes so I guess it can explain partly why it takes so long for the new album to come out. Concealed is an amazing piece of avantgarde brutal death by the way. Highly original stuff 
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Such an amazing release! It's brutal and beautiful at the same time. Totally recommended for Progressive and Technical Death Metal fans.
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