Suicide Theatre

Now Everything Fades, a band that caught my attention in the recent days. Over the years, I was so attracted to the depressive black metal style that has a lot to offer, in terms of music and performance. For today I am going to review the insane debut album Suicide Theatre.

The instrumentation in this is really special, a lot of tortured riffs and suicidal patterns, but unlike many depressive black metal bands, Now Everything Fades have managed to cooked it well to be your favorite dsbm album of the year, so whilst simple, it's atmospheric nature and use of self-destructive scales and layers of instruments creates a truly suicidal and deep atmosphere that draws the listener in, the beautifully painful combination of guitar and synth/keyboard on tracks such as 'The Slit-Wrist Gallery' create a sinister scene that makes the listener feel isolated and allows the atmosphere of the music and feelings to creep inside your head with memorable screams. There's depressive chordal progressions, insane tremolo picking, doomed arpeggios and other styles all employed at various points in the album, all appearing in each track, so the listener who loves depressive black metal never becomes bored. Now Everything Fades also mix clean and tortured distorted sounds to create their own suicidal atmospheres, the beginning of 'The Aesthetic Bullet' is a perfect example, the mesmerizing arpeggios and emotional picking layered together to produce a cold, deadly atmosphere that blends perfectly into the screamy distorted sections afterwards, moments like this are what makes this album so special, it creates suicidal music that flows from section to section, never losing the momentum or its dark atmosphere. The drumming performance on the album is simple too and it fits with the music as it matches the guitar and synth parts.

The vocal work of Fernando Garcia is perfect for this album, his agonized screams sound genuinely pained on this, and his voice matches the guitars production perfectly, all coming together to create this oppressive scenery of sound, his powerful voice varies from straight crispy black metal vocals, to high suicidal shrieks that sound like he is in real physical pain when creating them. The lyrics on Suicide Theatre are also well done, straight forward suicidal lyrics that I am glad that its in English and that its too simple for non English listeners to comprehend and enjoy.

In conclusion, Suicide Theatre is an interesting debut album for the depressive black metal industry, each song uses it's repetition to draw the listener into a suicidal atmosphere, while the album itself contains enough variation to make this record a benchmark in a sub-genre full of bands who are content to sound exactly like each other. Suicide Theatre is much more than a simple black metal album, get this album now and and keep it, it might be your last album if you're thinking of shooting yourself or something.