| CD REVIEW Seance |
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Band: Seance Some members from the Swedish bands Orchriste (Patrick Jensen; left after the second album to start The Haunted) and Total Death (Mique ‘Flesh’ Pettersson and Tony ‘Toxine’ Kampner), both formed in 1987, joined forces in 1990. Along with Johan Larsson, the original bass player for both Hammerfall and In Flames, and Bino Carlsson, this co-operation, called Séance, gained lots of positive response, not only in their home country, yet also in the rest of the world. Both Black Mark-released albums Fornever Laid To Rest (1992) and Saltrubbed Eyes (1993) were received with admiration and gratitude and the future looked fine. However, due to the departure of Bino and Patrick, the band got put on hold. The band members got involved with other bands, such as Satanic Slaughter and Witchery. Here they met Rille ‘Corpse’ Rimfält (also ex-Morgue), who joined Séance as lead guitarist. Last year, the members finally recorded the third full length at Micke’s HellSmell Studio (Denata, Freevil) and they signed a deal with the superb Singapore-based label Pulverised. Awakening Of The Gods is as brutal as both former albums, even though it has been fifteen years between the new and the last album. Awakening … stands for furious and ultra-violent Death Metal with a sound that stands as a victorious blood-knuckled fist. This sonic opus is brilliant in both technical craftsmanship and punctual performance, and the compositions stay interesting whole the time, even though the tempo is pretty high, which it might give the whole a filthy impression. However, this filthy, thrashy, approach is the ideal eardrum-company for another magisterial and pulverising all-time and old-school album. Just one question: what the f*ck is the sickening meaning behind the nervo-killer Flight Of The Wicked? 85/100 Ivan Tibos. |