REVIEW: APOPHIS - HELIOPOLIS

 

APOPHIS - HELIOPOLIS (Morbid Records, 1998):

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Artwork by Joachim Scheffler

Track List: 1- The Serpent God, 2- Choirs of Bitterness, 3- Reincarnation of the Serpent God, 4- Tear Down Your Walls, 5- Resurrection, 6- Ein Meer Aus Tränen, 7- Dominion, 8- Behold His Arrival, 9- Nobody Will Miss You

Some issues ago I interviewed this German band and they seemed to me a very interesting death metal band. Now, while listening to their music I am not dissapointed, they are powerful and they have very good skills as musicians to make their music very interesting to the listener. One good thing that I listen of this band is that I feel that they have worked a lot on their guitar riffs making some of them very glorious in the vein of some very technical band s like Megadeth in their "Rust in Peace" album but all in a death metal context (I mean, with a heavier sound and a lot of brutality added). That is, this guys have learned a lot from other styles and from their influences and then they have transformed, adapted and thrown everything into their music making it sound very original. This is also one of the CDs of the month. Contact: www.morbidrecords.de