REVIEW: EMBOLISM - ...AND WE ALL HATE OURSELVES

EMBOLISM - …AND WE ALL HATE OURSELVES (Erebos Prods. - 2000): Death/ grind coming from Slovakia! Thius band has been playing in the underground since 1997. This release has also some touches of black metal on it, specially on some speed riffs and in half of the vocals (there are two types of vocals, a grindcore-type growling and a more trollish vocal). After some demos and split CDs the band has finally arrived to the debut CD. I liked the beginning of the CD with the song "Have you fear?" with a rhythmic riff before the blast beat that remembered me of old Entombed. Second song "The thorns of Hatred" starts with a blast beat with black metal vocals before getting into a really interesting riff (0:42) and a stupendous break with only drums and bass. In fact I think that if the band makes more use of this type of things they will be considered a really original band: riffs like the ones in "The Wreckages of Life" (2:22 and 2:40) or the ones in the end of "Are you sleeping?" (1:29) (with an interesting double bass drum pattern), or the distorted bass break in "Fight" (1:10) are not found in most of the bands in black metal. My favorite tracks: "The Thorns of Hatred", "Fight", "Money, life and love" (killer vocals and drumming !) and "Death Causing Pleasure". Contact: embolismsk@hotmail.com