| CD REVIEW The Ruins Of Beverast |
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Band: The Ruins Of Beverast Former Nagelfar-member Alexander Von Meilenwald started The Ruins Of Beverast in 2003. The project recorded superb material before (like Rain Upon The Impure or the debut Unlock The Shrine), which was rather complex and unconventional. The same goes for Foulest Semen Of A Sheltered Elite. The album consists of ten titles, among which three sampled parts that last between forty six and eighty two seconds. The seven other tracks last between eight and fifteen minutes (!) and all of them are extremely varying and, at the same time, overpowering. In its purest abstraction, The Ruins Of Beverast bring Doom / Black / Death Metal, but that isn’t but a misty direction. As a matter of fact, this project subtly en intelligently combines different influences (bands) and elements (genres) with only one subject: ulterior darkness! The tempo as well as the structures in melody vary whole the time, yet without giving it a progressive touch of modernism, and without losing the raison d’être: creating the most oppressing atmosphere in years. Each hymn consists of well-thought parts, interacting in a perfect symbiosis. There’s a link with fast and barbaric Black Metal, epic Traditional Doom, old school-inspired Doom-Death, atmospheric Symphonic Black Metal, fast old school Death Metal, slow and grim Suicidal Black, ambient and / or industrialized Funeral Doom, and cold Post-Black Metal, coming with a raw, apocalyptic and sinister sound and a wide vocal range (grunts, screams, epic chants, whispers, …). Bands and projects that come to mind are, for example, Shining, Urna, Nagelfar, Darkthrone, Diabolicum, early Paradise Lost, Bathory, Esoteric, Lunar Aurora, Craft, Void Of Silence, Ahab, Enslaved, Amon Amarth, Winter, etc. 94/100 Ivan Tibos. |