REVIEW: NOCTUARY - WHEN FIRES BREED BLOOD

 

NOCTUARY - WHEN FIRES BREED BLOOD (Lost Disciple Recs. - 2000) : As a lot of you may know, Noctuary was the first band that I interviewed for Music Extreme. And this choice was not casual because this band has the fame of being one of the bests in their style of brutal death/black metal brutal. When one listens to this CD you understand that that fame is coimpletely justified, because of the power that this guys have in their music. It is not only speed or power, as you can see since the beginning with"Clouds Donning the Black Sky". In the eight tracks here (organized in five chapters on this CD) we can see a lot of arrangements, breaks, rhythm changes, etc. …my definition is that this band knows how to use the charachteristic elements from the style, plus they know how to use spaces and silences that are so useful in music. Listen to "…And Hate Embraced The Night" to see the quality of this band, to see how subtle can be their arrangements, or to "Vengeance Before Valor" to see how they do those guitar solos and how tight the band is in the faster parts. This is a record that you must have in your collection or shoot yourself.. Contact: www.lostdisciple.com or ALHuman@aol.com .