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REGARDS - CYBERWASTED.
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Music Review: The Amenta - Occasus (2004)
Ferocious primeval Death metal played with explosive blast beats, threateningly fast tempo-ed guitars, dominantly powerful raspy vocals and ambient synth elements lay in wait for the listener of the 2004 release "Occasus" from the band "The Amenta".
A highly innovative follow up to their acclamied Demo of 2002 "Mictlan", The Amenta play with crushing efficiency paving a new force in extreme music. Influenced, but far from a clone of any previous band, The Amenta have inclinations of death, black, industrial, thrash metal embodied in their brand of powerful chaotic intensity. For all its extremity, The Amenta know how to slam the breaks on just at the appropriate moment to provide the listener with beautiful sound scapes of syth ambience before again jumping into a whirl wind of perfectly balanced brutality. This synth ambience too plays a prominent part in the bare bones structure of their raw music tracks, enhancing an already masterful music and helping the band forge their exquised sounds.
Production wise the recording is solid with a perfect balancing between vocals and instrumentation.
This is a surprisingly strong release that is a damn shame has barely made a ripple in the music scene. Hailing from South Australia would certainly have played a part in this, for if The Amenta came from the USA or Europe, they would most certainly be highly promoted and playing with the biggest names of the metal world by now. Lets hope the rest of the metal fraternaty realise what a masterful work the band has delivered with the “Occasus” before it sinks between the dark cracks into metal obscurity.
(Recently re: released as a Limited Ed' 2 Disc jam packed with bonus tracks, interviews, video clips, photos and extra art work!)
Video Clip: " The Amenta: Erebus" (Occasus, 2004).
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