Day into Night

This album is probably one the most entertaining and honorable pieces of music that I’ve ever got the chance to listen to. Quo Vadis is one of a million when it comes to being to combine classical music with the heaviness and complexity of death metal. To say that this is a piece of craftsmanship not worthy of being called a masterpiece would be a grave mistake, these guys have proven that you don’t have to be loud and fast all the time to make an awesome metal album.

Right of the bat, the riffs played in the opening tracks are very thrash like, noting that the influence from the later Carcass also plays a role in helping creating this band’s unique yet recognizable sound. The opening of “Dysgenics” sounds indeed like something that Carcass would have played during their later more melodic death metal sounding days. Not to mention Arie Itman’s vocals are very similar sounding to Jeff Walker’s voice of Carcass. This, combined with the technical but very melodic and at times thrash sounding riffs, and the magnificent and precise on time drumming of Mr. Yanic Bercier, gives you the noticeable sound that Quo Vadis has been come to be known for. I’d like to mention also that Bercier’s performance on the kit is very and utterly insane, keeping and changing time like a machine, not a single note being missed, as he is able to help keep the flow of the music intact without so much as a missed beat and or fill, and along with the usual blast beats(which aren’t the dominant beats on this album) he is able to pull off some very amazing grooves that just add to the music’s raw and over all thrash influenced sound. It is very precise, very accurate, and melodic as shit. The slow classical like parts are another addition that just further helps enhance the music to help give a break to the initial sound, and then help drastically progress back to the point to where they’re thrashing hard again, and again, on most of the tracks. The production value is also another thing to notice as it is almost crystal clear, and the sound is equally disturbed between both sides and the center, or at least that’s what it indeed sounds like.

In the end, I’d say that this is worthy of a metal masterpiece, although not entirely perfect (as no album could very ever be 100%) this album comes pretty close. It has( I think) everything that you’d want in on a heavy album, enough volume, speed played with unmistakable and precision like talent, with overall technically mixed with the occasion “break” with the slower and more classical sounding music moments. It’s very worth checking out, if you’re into either technical or melodic death metal, and really will stick out as one of those “different” bands, who not just incorporate different styles into their playing, but know how to do it and pull it off right. Day Into Night from Quo Vadis gets a 92% for overall quality and a great masterworks performance.

Recommended tracks: Absolution (Element Of Assemble III), Dysgenics, On the Shores of Ithaka, and Mute Requiem.