Monday, March 29, 2010

The Sarcophagus - Towards the Eternal Chaos Review


The Sarcophagus - Towards the Eternal Chaos
Full-length, Osmose Productions, November 29th, 2009

THE SARCOPHAGUS are a Turkish Symphonic Extreme/Black Metal band who play in a unique style filled with it's own atmosphere that seperates them from any other band in the SBM field or sub-genre!

This is their Debut album and features some truly aggressive and affecting vocals by Niklas Kvarforth of the Suicidal/Depressive Black Metal [or Avante-Gard Extreme Metal band as they are now familiarly known] SHINING from Sweden!

Kvarforth brings a whole different aspect to their sonic attack and his vocals are sure to appeal to any fan of Attila's vox in MAYHEM or KEEP OF KALESSIN.

While the music is Symphonic Black Metal in essence it doesn't feel or sound anything like any other band which plays Symphonic BM, THE SARCOPHAGUS play in a more atmospheric style that doesn't place the keyboards too high in the mix and utilizes a synth sound as a background foundation that they have built their unique style of agressive Extreme BM upon! A great Turkish band who remain waiting in the aisles for their big break in the Extreme Metal scene... this could well pole-vault their status higher in the undergound scene.

Reviewed by Damien Bentley - 10/10

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