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Decent but of quite bad sound quality - 50%
A Funeral Doom band coming from the warm and sunny United Arab Emirates - Dubai to be more precise - is not something that you come across everyday, but it exists: Tragedian, now known as Qabr, is composed of 3 Arabs. The 2-track demo The Malediction Of Manifestation is their only release to date.
However, there is not much exotic about this demo: The music is Funeral Doom / Death with a few blast beats outbursts à la diSEMBOWELMENT, some Ambient parts and vocals like on Bethlehem's Dictius Te Necare. There is not much else to be said, apart that the CD is of quite bad quality: it sounds as if 128 kbit/s mp3 songs had been burnt on CD... True or not, the fact is that the frequencies above 15 kHz are missing (I tested this; for information, a real audio CD plays is capable of frequencies of over 20 kHz), and this is rather unpleasant when listening to the tracks with full attention.
The Malediction Of Manifestation is nothing really new, but for a first release it is decent. I just hope that next time we will be able to hear a CD with REAL CD quality.
Originally written for http://www.adnihilum.co.nr
