Negative-Existence - ELYSIAN BLAZE "Beneath Silent Faces" CD

ELYSIAN BLAZE "Beneath Silent Faces" CD
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Artist: ELYSIAN BLAZE

Title: Beneath Silent Faces

Format: CD

Country: Australia

Genre: Doom

Record Label: Asphyxiate Recordings

Official re-issue of the long sold out demo with bonus track "Despair" originally only available on the "Pestilentia Australis" compilation CD. All new artwork.

Tracklisting:

1. Anvil Chorus 08:48
2. Prophecy of Misery 06:14
3. A Constellation of Souls 02:55
4. The Thorned Tongue of Requiem 09:49
5. Beneath Silent Faces 08:38
6. Dark Are My Nights 03:21
7. Despair 09:16

REVIEW

Written by Ibex_Ichor
[Metal Archives]
I first heard of Elysian Blaze on the Australian Black Metal compilation album "Pestilentia Australis" and was quite impressed with what I heard, as well with the rest of the many bands on the compilation. So, I set out in a venture to discover these bands and into the superb Australian Black Metal scene.

Beneath Silent Faces is the first material I've got to hear from the one man band and the production is actually quite well. It's full of reverb that actually helps the atmosphere of the music and gives it a much darker mood. The guitars seem like they're being played deep within an ancient catacomb and the bass is rumbly and doomish. The drumming is another thing I should mention; the blast beats on the demo (and on the following album as well) sound like an oncoming train, or a drying machine going fast. Now don't think this is a bad thing, for I think this fits the music well and gives it a dark industrial sound. There are some keyboards, though they're mixed well with the rest of the instruments and aren't cheesy what so ever. For the vocals, they're not anything new or great, and they're mixed into the background but again, they fit well with the music and it sounds like a twisted being screaming within that ancient catacomb I mentured before.

The opening song, "Anvil Chorus", immediately pulls you deep into that catacomb for this demo has an extremely dark, gloomy, and depressing atmosphere. It won't stop until the demo is over with and it'll only leave you wanting to hear more. To simply label Elysian Blaze as a Black Metal band would be a mistake, for the music is very much it's own thing. There are of course many characteristics of Black Metal (tremelo riffs, blast beats, shrieked vocals) here but there is also hints of Doom as well, with the slow drumming, long and stretched out guitar riff, and the overall dark mood of the album. So there are as many slow parts as there is fast here.

This is an amazing demo with an extremely dark and gloomy atmosphere which shouldn't be missed by fans of dark, suicidal Black Metal and Doom Metal. You won't regret listening to this. Elysian Blaze is surely one of the better Black Metal bands of today and I eagerly await what Mutatiis has to offer in the future.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 12 October, 2008.

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