REVIEW: ASCENSION - WALKING ON THE PSYCHOPATH

 

ASCENSION - WALKING ON THE PSYCHOPATH (Independent, 2001)

Produced by Ascension

Cover Art by Ascension

Tracks: 1- Into Coppice; 2- Black in Men; 3- Two; 4- Me, the Lunatic; 5- Vertigo; 6- Bloodred Letter Day; 7- Paying the Debt of Nature

Ascension is a death metal band that have the characteristic of using a lot of melodies in their music and a lot of really technical passages. The music on this CD has many breaks and changes and you can listen that this guys are really well rehearsed. There are two types of vocals...one that is more guttural and other that is closer to Kreator´s Mille Petrozza. One thing that I love of this guys is the jazz influence that they have....yes!! they throw jazz lines in all their compositions with clean and distorted guitars and I really like the way it sounds. Also there are many guitar solos which I liked alot because they are done with really good taste and an amazing techncal skills. The bass player also helps to the technical side of Ascension´s music playing excelenet melodic lines that one could imagine in the hands of some fusion or jazz player. Thumbs up for this amazing band and I hope they release their new material soon because I am a fan of them now !! This is one of the CDs of the month

Favorite tracks: All the tracks contained here.

Contact: www.ascension-net.de