Record Label:: Displeased Records
Reviewer:: Lieff

NEMBRIONIC’S “Coffin On Coffin” opens up this affair. This song is a very cool, heavy aggressive, tight exercise in the art of thrashing death metal. Their second song, “Bulldozer”, is a real catchy simple death metal affair. Very catchy, kind of punkish sounding actually. ALTAR follows. This band has no real identity of its own. They are aggressive, yes, but so what? Nothing special. CELESTIAL SEASON has a track from “Solar Lovers” here. It is of course good. The second song by this band, “Astral Dub”, is really lame because they want to sound like a heavy ALICE IN CHAINS. That sucks because it sounds fake. HYBERNOID follows with “Today’s, Tomorrows, Yesterday”, which is a really cool song. It actually sounds kind of like old PARADISE LOST, but not as doomy. Very melodic, but heavy. “Revery”, the next song also by this band and is in a similar style. I recommend this band to people, even though I have not yet heard a complete release. These two songs are both melodic, heavy and catchy. Not tremendously original, but good all the same. Then comes RHADAMANTYS, who are a regular death metal band with no real identity to them. To typical, to boring. CONSOLATION is next. This band is also pretty heavy, but I find nothing appealing about it. To normal sounding. ORPHANAGE has only one song here; “In The Garden Of Eden”. This song sounds really good. It is a mid-paced affair that offers classy background vocals that are softly sang in a high pitched voice and the different riffs in the song add texture to the whole thing. I want to hear more and I hope I will. ETERNAL SOLSTICE is the last band on this comp. and perhaps the best. “Culpable Homicide” is a mid-paced traditional death metal song. You will find nothing but heaviness here. The vocalist sounds a bit like Kam Lee or Barney Greenway. The bands sound has a tight, well thought-out feel. The riffs sound a bit “old Swedish” I think. There is a nice little melodic note found throughout the song. “Mask The Face Of Death” ends this comp. Once again, ETERNAL SOLSTICE shreds throughout this. I recommend this band because they have a definite feel to them and sound pretty fresh and simply play with heaviness and energy.