| CD REVIEW Days Of Betrayal |
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Band: Days Of Betrayal Days Of Betrayal are a pretty young formation from Eeklo, Belgium, and it all started in 2004. After a demo tape and a self-released mini-album, the quintet entered the CDS Studio in Chelmsford, UK, for the recording of the first full length. The result has duration of about forty minutes and shows the professional maturity the band underwent. Not only the somewhat dirty sound did turn out more firm than on the mini-album Autumn’s Coldest Embrace, but the compositions are more intelligent and the performance has come close to perfection. The tracks can be ‘located’ within the thin nobody’s border between Death Metal and Deathcore, and the whole is injected with elements from Thrash, Grindcore and Hardcore, yet with a leading role for the ‘death’-part. The very technical (including a few voivodian riffs) tracks vary a lot in tempo, and several songs contain nice hooked breaks. The ‘international’ approach of the music (think: UK, Poland, US, Holland, Belgium (!) and so on), the variation between the individual tracks, and the modern production are absolute surpluses. Not every title is of a superior quality, yet a few times this band does grotesquely surprise. And even though Days Of Betrayal aren’t the most renewing formation ever, the band seems to have found its own (pretty) face. They don’t copy their influences, but the members use the best elements from those bands, and lots of own ideas, to create an own form of Death Music. Another splendid Belgian product! 84/100 Ivan Tibos. |