The Awakening

Start playing this record and I can vouch that the riffs are the first to catch your attention but later you realize that they are not actually exceptional, its just that there is nothing much in this record other than that. Catchy and heavily influenced by progressive thrash and slightly on the slower side but just not good enough to carry the whole record on its merit. First glaring negative attribute of Ever Frost is the vocals, not exactly of my taste, may be this is how Chuck Schuldiner might sound if he gets a common cold. The vocals lack both the depth and ambiance to qualify as a Death growl and the raw aggression, typical thrash vocals, in other words its just a gap filler between riffs.

"A Glance Into The End" has an acoustic starting which abruptly switches to a death metal inspired sound but when lead guitar and vocals start it concocts a bizarre mix of thrash and death. The double bass drums with bass guitar definitely adds to the death metal feel but the high pitched leads are mostly old school metal influenced, sometimes even power metal like when combined with the booming bass and drums, which is blasphemous for a death metal fanatic.

The band was definitely confused, they have got caught up in a whirlpool of polar influences which gives a confusing feel to the listener. Its tough to do justice to any genre of music if its mixed and mashed in a mechanical fashion with very less feel to bridge them together. The songs could have been a bit more longer, that could have avoided the frequent shifts from slow leads to screams with pacy drums in background and again back to slogging leads, listen to "The New Age Of Redemption" and you will know what exactly I am talking about. "Tear Down The Sky" starts with a drone of clean vocals which switches to screams and lazy riffs but within a minute switching back to drone vocals but on the brighter side, now the screaming vocals sound so much better. The band definitely has a strangely original and weird style of combining influences, according to me they require a better record producer who can infuse some much needed aggression.


I can imagine how a record like this could have been made, mash together patches of different instrument sounds picked from different songs from differing genres, put them all together and do random ordering for creating different songs. The songs need to have more feel not just fancy influences bonded together by catchy riffs, this record will pass off as a one of those decorative sounds which instantly catches your attention but fails to survive on your play list for more than a couple of days.