Band:	Sear
Album:	Lamentations Of Destruction
Style:	Black metal, Death metal
Website:	http://www.officialsear.com
Release date:	March 07, 2007
A review by:	Herzebeth

01. Introduction
02. Pedon Käsky
03. Heaven Ablaze
04. One Throne
05. Fire & Death
06. Purgatory
07. Destination
08. Violation Of The Soul
09. The Burning
10. Hate & Scorn, Crowned With Horns
11. Weeping Flesh

Sear is an experienced band or so it seems, they've been around for a couple of years and the members (at least the vocalist) have enough side-projects to talk about it for hours, then what the hell happened with this album?

These Finnish musicians play a very good repertoire of Death Metal with a lot of Blackish influences, they try it hard and they do it loud, but unfortunately their metal becomes incoherent in the edges and ends up sounding like a starving Behemoth. It's not a bad piece that's for sure, the music keeps the listener interested to the very end, and the album per-se is packed with a very decent amount of memorable riffs; but the band does not create anything quite original to tell you the truth.

The songwriting is what crumbled the experience, yes this is catchy and yes this is heavy, but the songs have a lined structure that never really fits with anything; it's not the mixing of genres at all, it's the blank spots in the scheme and the disjointed songwriting what makes this album average in the bare ends.

In the end this record is enjoyable and quite good; it will fit in our fellow metal collectors minds that are looking to fill that empty shelf in their CD pile; though it's not the best thing to top your to-buy list, it will be a great "new band" to hear, it's catchy and hostile, it's something decent to toss in your stereo every once in a while.

Best Tracks: "Heaven Ablaze", "Weeping Flesh"