Gottverlassen

It was back in ’96 when I first this album and I immediately fell in love with it!! 16 years later, I love it even more, not only because it’s a great album, but because it brings me back so good old feelings and specially I fucking remember one and every song note by note!! And this is one of the greatest components that a good album must have, I mean, if you can’t remember songs after listening to them and specially after so many years, that means the songs weren’t that good.

One of the curious things about The Mist is that guitarist/vocalist is Jairo Guedz, known for being one of Sepultura’s former guitarists that left after “Morbid Vision” leaving his place for Andreas Kisser. “Gottverlassen” is the 3rd and last full length by the band and I must say they left with a great album!! The music could be described as some kind of groove Thrash whose main influenced I’d say they are Slayer, Sepultura and Prong. Along the whole album, the most noticeable influence is undoubtedly Slayer which mixed with some occasional touches from the two other mentioned bands, gives an interesting final result. One of the points I specially like about this album, which makes it different from your typical Thrash outfits, is the voice. Sounds like tired, sounds like just wake up, but it’s so damn cool!! Reminds me to Prong’s Tommy Victor. There are so many vocalists that try to imitate others and there’s so many clichés, that it’s great to hear a voice that stands out and it’s so easily recognizable.

The album is not a display of technical abilities and sure they don’t even try to be technical, but instead this power-trio sticks to memorable riffing, solid song structures and catchy-as-fuck songs that won’t leave your head if you listen to the album with the right mood. Featuring 12 songs in almost one hour, it might seem a bit long for your usual album, but shit, when you enjoy an album so much it even leaves you an impression that’s too short and you gotta press play again and listen to it again and again…