The Persecution from Heaven

When you release a music magazine, then you need to get music in one way or another: buy, it download it (legal, illegal) or you ask bands, whether they are able to provide you with their music. The more time constraints you have, the more there is (might?) be a tendency to shift the focus on the third of these aspects. Even though there are more music sites in the Internet than ever before, it is really hard to listen to each of the albums before you decide whether they are worth to be included in the magazine; especially when there is not much time at hand. Armageddon is such an example …

… and believe me, their music is no rotten apple (tomato?). The lack of originality – you cannot miss the obvious references here – are only natural for a young band on their first demo output. Yes, it is Cradle of Filth, but unlike the Brits these Greeks play their music with more punch and less cheesy keyboards. Here the emphasis lies on the black metal and not on Gothic or similar stuff. On those two tracks the guitars play some nice riffs and were also granted some space to perform solos (the second comes with a post-rock reference), while in the background a bass-guitar creates the proper basis for this type of art. A drum-computer? No … they have someone with more flesh and blood and therefore with a less monotonous performance. Yes, to hear a band actually play the music and not relying on some obscure PC-program is always something that should be preferred. How this all turns out would be this: generally midtempo played music with some Dani-inspired vocals (just the screeches and less extreme) and a black metal performance whose style wakes memories on the earlier Dimmu Borgir releases and similar bands from this era. Good to listen to would there not be those two aspects Amargeddon should work on: