| CD REVIEW Violent Eve |
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Band: Violent Eve Madrid-based formation Violent Eve was formed in 2009 by Skunk DF-colleagues David Ramos (g) (ex-Dreamaker) and Edu Brenes (d) (also involved with Kaothic, Jorge Salan and Terroristars). After recruiting three same-minded musicians, guitar player Diego Lopez (Misantropia/Hysteria, Silver Fist), bassist Dani Fernandez (ex-Dark Moor, Inntrance) and singer Ciro ‘Zyrus’ Sanchez (Edu’s colleague in Kaothic, also in Distance), Violent Eve started recording the debut album at the Austrian Noisehead Studio with producer Mario Jezik. The result lasts for fifty minutes and hammers as from the very first second on. Eleven Reasons To Kill brings rather classical and traditional old styled Death Metal with an enormous injection of Groove Metal. The uncompromising tracks aren’t progressive but, on the other hand, very technically précised in both performance and construction. Energy and brutality are keywords, and this goes for both the slow as well as the fast passages. Besides, the band injects elements from a wider spectrum: Mathcore, Metalcore, Thrash Metal, Death’n’Roll – the album even includes electronic passages. Yet the totality is built on groovy Death Terror from the Old School, the bloody kind, the horrific kind, the dirtiest kind. However, two remarks: the variation between the songs, the self-created approach, and some infantile parts. In both first cases (variety and originality) there is a huge lack of it. The songs do sound alike from time to time, in spite of the few changes in tempo and melody, and it might cause loss of attentivity and endurance. And the complete lack of originality is almost painful (yet isn’t this a goal on itself?). when it comes to the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ parts, well, sometimes it does stink. Priests Of Corruption, for example, with those uninspired repetitive drum patterns. Yet in contradiction to it, I do need to add this: Violent Eve have potential! A few times the band does surprise me (a little or a lot, that’s the utter question), and tell me, which band is able to bring catchiness with such an aggression at the same time? Indeed, I don’t know any other band that is able to combine accessibility with uncomfortability – but Violent Eve do. Eleven Reasons To Kill won’t be (my) Death Metal album of the year, yet for those who like it groovy, brutal and uncompromising… 75/100 Ivan Tibos. |