Monday, April 6, 2009

Anagnorisis - Alpha and Omega (2009)

Anagnorisis play a fast brand of symphonic death/black metal. Not exactly what you'd expect from a band out of Kentucky. But they've studied the style and done a good job at fitting into it without sounding completely derivative. Their music is faster and tighter than I was expecting and it includes a more melody than I'm used to. Even the guitar solos are pretty well done (and I usually hate guitar solos in black metal). This isn't something that I'm probably going to feel like listening to a whole lot, but it's not bad. I hope the band can extend their sound into something more original in the future, since they certainly have the technical ability.

The band have made this release freely available from their website.

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