REVIEW: BEYOND THE EMBRACE - AGAINST THE ELEMENTS

 

BEYOND THE EMBRACE - AGAINST THE ELEMENTS (Metal Blade, 2002)

Produced By: Beyond the Embrace with Aaron Clay

Tracks: 1- Bastard Screams, 2- Mourning in Magenta, 3- Compass, 4- Rapture, 5- Drowning Sun, 6- Against the Elements, 7- Release, 8- The Bending Sea, 9- Embers Astray, 10- The Riddle of Steel

Cover Art by www.killustrations.com

Recorded at E.S.S. Productions

This album starts powerfully with "Bastard Screams", a pure metal song with hooks in the choruses and heavy and elaborated guitar riffs and solos. Here we have a band that mixes succesfully elements of pure death metal, heavy metal, thrash metal and black metal making infinite arrangements within each of the compositions. Each track here is a box of surprises with riffs in the style of bands like In Flames, Dark Tranquility or Carcass with complexity in the riffs and with differnt types of vocals that give a lot of variation to the songs. Plus, we have to add that thhis recording has a great sound that enhances all the elements and feelings that this guys want to transmit. Check this band !!

Favorite tracks: All the CD

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