Reborn as Gods

This outfit started their career as Thrawn with their only demo (“Light Creates Shadows”, 2003) containing some not very inspired Gothenburg school-worshipping modern thrash/death with only the excellent emotional vocals of Kjell Andersson (also the progressive thrashers Azotic Reign) creating a semblance of more positive impression.

Kudos paid to the guys immediately for managing to elevate their proficiency to loftier pastures mere months later for the full-length released under this moniker, a pretty nice sure-handed slab of modern technical thrash with bold echoes of Nevermore and Scariot, and of course Azotic Reign.

Three years later the guys return, reborn as gods, with this 4-tracker here which sees them following a similar intricate path without any drastic cosmetic alterations. It’s all fast, not very compromising, modern technical thrash Andersson dexterously switching from hellish deathy to more attached cleaner vocal feats, the others shredding with quite a bit of intensity on the apocalyptic title-track which amazingly remains within the mid-paced confines for most of the time. No such films on “Vortex” which thrashes with passion and a very good sense of melody, a ripping headacher with great both stomping and technical walkabouts on which Andersson unleashes a couple of piercing Halford-esque screams. Shades of Nevermore start popping up on the immaculately contrived roller-coaster “Darkness Profound”, a dark brooding piece with not so much speed exhibited the band weaving brilliant spiral-like riff-mosaics which stay around for “Hollow Planet (Subterranean World)”, a more aggressive galloping proposition with dramatic build-ups and a few entangled spin-arounds that also get quite a bit of help from the lead guitarist who regularly provides brief but effective screamy pirouettes.

The way to the metal Olympus seems well mapped for these talented deities, but with all the musicians, save for Andersson, busy with various sins... sorry, stints around the metal horizon, above all the progressive death metal wizards Theory in Practice, things have considerably slowed down in their camp… still, from the guys’ stay with the great Peter Lake (the Theory in Practice mainman) one can always expect grander musical exploits with their main act in the future, as long as those don’t come a few aeons from now.