REVIEW: DIVINE RAPTURE - DIVINE RAPTURE

 

DIVINE RAPTURE - DIVINE RAPTURE (Hrborrah Records, 1999):

Technical data:

Recorded at Silent Studios.

Mixed by Justin Anthony Madax

Produced by Divine Rapture and Justin Madax

Artwork by Mike Hrubovcak.

Track List: 1- Desirous Nonsubsistence, 2- Purging thy Torrents, 3- Black Moon Harvest, 4- Unyielding Presence, 5- The Well of Enlightenment, 6- A Glimmer From beneath, Raw Primal Versions: 7- Black Moon Harvest, 8- Desirous Nonsubsistence, 9- Purging Thy Torrents, 10- Unyielding presence, 11- A Glimmer From Beneath, 12- Multimedia track

This is Divine Rapture´s debut album that contains six tracks from a demo in its Original Versions and in its Primal Raw Versions, where the first ones are better sounding than the second ones. The music is a modern death metal in the vein of the fastest Morbid Angel with good and fast solos  (some of them done with Harmonizer, like the ones in "Purging Thy Torrents") and emphasizing the more rhythmic side of their musicl personality (some riffs are great for seeing the band live in front of stage diving crowd). There is also a powerful and growling vocalist and some melodies that are thrown here and there and help the tracks to have their own identity ("Black Moon Harvest" is a total death metal hit)The sound is not so good, specially the drums are a little bit opaque, but considering the one that they have achieved in their new material they have solved easily this problem. Favorite tracks" "Black Moon Harvest", "Unyielding Presence" and "A Glimmer from Beneath". Contact: www.divinerapture.net