Band:
A Premonition
Album:
[Never Ends] EP
Genre:
Black/Doom Metal
Country:
Argentina
Year:
2012
Immediately
we get a distant guitar opening, brooding. Then the metal starts. The vocals
stand out, filtering deeply to do with the music. Not this stereotypical
shrieking. This is the genre-metal at its finest. DSBM has returned.
The
track "Sueños" is reminiscent of classical DSBM, being slower paced
and more nostalgic. The next one, "The
Nothingness", is pretty much straightforward black metal, my least
favorite since it feels stitched together more than the others, but it's
not bad. Quite on the contrary, since its elements are superb. The last
track, "Fallen", it a slow and steady climb along a DSBM riff.
Something almost feels triumphant about it.
I
recommend this for your library. It's the best I've heard in a long time.
A
Premonition
has around 22 albums out, 4 of which are splits. Their songs are in Spanish.
I'll be reviewing their albums and giving links as I go through them.
***
Band: A Premonition
Album: Destino
Genre: Black/Doom Metal
Country: Argentina
Year: 2013
This album differs from their previous album in its more gliding, DSBM feel over the raw feelings in Never Ends. There is a lot more quiet to be contemplated on. With the label of "shoegaze" on Black Trist Metal, I thought I would be getting something similar to Raincity Longway which also released an album just last year and are Argentines. But it's just brooding. The closest thing we get to shoegaze is the track is "Marcas del Tiempo", which is really just awesome. The drums are active and alternating, echoing in this almost triumphant progression through hopelessness. A piano added only marks the depth of the guitars by contrast, which assemble together far past the simple construction of typical DSBM songs (that is, a drum and a guitar). Real thought and soul went into this, a trve soul. This supersedes the other songs by its majesty and its ability to take you on its journey.
This is more refined than Never Ends and I recommend it as well for slightly different reasons.
I really don't want to rate these because... you should just listen to them.
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