Crescent

Crescent – Carving the Fires of Akhet Review

Crescent – Carving the Fires of Akhet Review

By Ferrous Beuller on July 13, 2021 in Reviews, Black Metal, Death Metal, 49 comments

“I’ve said it before and, Ra be damned, I’ll say it again. I love eastern themes in metal. As a result, my interest is naturally piqued by any band utilizing those progressions or from that part of the world. I discussed this at length in my review of Crescent’s 2018 album The Order of Amenti. These Egyptians definitely know how to implement dynamic scales amidst stone-cracking riffs. Now, ignited with a little new blood, Carving the Fires of Akhet prepares to descend on the masses in a flurry of smoke and ash.” Axe, wax or wane?

Mettadone – Rotten Flattery Review

Mettadone – Rotten Flattery Review

By Twelve on May 19, 2019 in 2019, Archaic Sound, Death Metal, Reviews, Ukrainian Metal, Death Metal, 27 comments

“Back in 2015, Ukranian act Mettadone emerged from wherever they’d been previously to unleash their debut, Invisible Disease, upon the world. The album was an intriguing offering of gothic-tinged doom/death and had good potential behind it. In 2017, while touring, the band’s singer apparently left the band right before a show. What’s a band to do? I should think that would be obvious: the drummer sang the show, discovered he enjoyed the role, and so the band subsequently went full death metal.” Should you ever go full death metal?

Crescent – The Order of Amenti Review

Crescent – The Order of Amenti Review

By Ferrous Beuller on February 14, 2018 in 2018, Death Metal, Egyptian Metal, Listenable Records, Reviews, 0 comments

“Some pain will last. In particular, those most formative of musical memories, the marriage of experience and DNA. Realm of Chaos and Consuming Impulse were the first to school me on how hard death metal could hit, and while Pierced From Within taught a lesson in climactic brutality, it was In Their Darkened Shrines that embodied the extravagance of extremity. These three tenets are what I champion in truly great death metal and, thanks to the latter, what can clumsily be described as “eastern” chord progressions have appealed to me ever since. Egypt’s very own Crescent know my needs, and their second album, The Order of Amenti, seeks to deliver just that.” Pyramid schemes.