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Lyfthrasyr - The Recent Foresight

Awesome cyber-tech dark metal - 95%

KingOvFrost, January 14th, 2008

Songwriter, bassist, growler, keyboard/piano player and band founder Aggreash gave birth to his melodic dark metal project Lyfthrasyr back in 2002. As a proud 5-year-old, the band unleashes their second offering The Recent Foresight through twilight-Vertrieb. With The Recent Foresight Aggreash, Insorior (guitars) and Skytorian (drums) seek world dominance, and to be truly honest: Lyfthrasyr is an underground metal sensation that everyone would talk about if a major label like Century Media took this album. Clocking in at a brisk forty minutes, Lyfthrasyr’s latest treks through the gates of hell, offering a sanguine recreation of hellfire with machine gun double bass drumming, keyboard swirling into outer Space locality, stabbing through rigid hooks and excessive demonic whispering/dark growls by Aggreash that would even make Satan piss his pants too.

Eight slabs of aggressive extreme metal awaits the listener, the band fronts a genre I like to call “Cybertech melodic dark metal”. Cyber due to the futuristic synth sounds/intriguing piano parts, the music is masterfully performed and especially Skytorian on drums deserves an honorable mention. Skytorian can bring the noise; he plays insanely fast and precise drum patterns (as highlighted by the seventh track, Obsession in a convenient manner ). Skytorian’s propulsive and blindingly fast blast beasts match the work of drummer legends as Hellhammer and Gene Hoglan.

Lyfthrasyr make sure to include calmer parts as opposed to the fast melodic black metal parts. These breaks are dominated by inventive keyboard parts and/or versatile vocals arrangements which span from evil whispering & audible mumbling to incredibly dark growling. The fast and aggressive parts are intense, brutal and at times threaten to overwhelm the listener. Yet at the same time, the riffs are catchy and memorable hooks abound. Examples of this can be found in Rage towards Apathy and the track with almost pop-sounding choruses, Visions of Hope and Despair. The latter tune is incredibly catchy and I literally can’t stop listening to it!

The total absence of guitar solos on The Recent Foresight is a minor annoyance, throw in some well-fitting solos and this album would be perfect. Still, Lyfthrasyr has created a masterpiece that will stir the underground and hopefully the more mainstream metal scene as well. The German metal scene is more alive than ever, and Lyfthrasyr is undoubtedly a band to keep an eye on for in the future. This album is recommended for fans of melodic death/dark bands as Dimmu Borgir (early), Belphegor, Red Harvest, Freevil and Cradle of Filth (early).

Beware of the next generation of melodic black/dark metal!

Originally written by KingOvFrost for http://www.northernmetal.info