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Label: Progress Red Labels
Catalog
#: CD7913004
Format
: CD, Album
Country
: Denmark
Released
: 1992
Genre
: Rock
Style
: Death Metal
Audio
: WvPack (Image+Cue+Log)/MP3 CBR320
Size
: 306Mb/102Mb
Maceration — малоизвестный датский дет-метал бэнд, канувший в
никуда. Вокальные партии в альбоме записал Dan Swano под
псевдонимом Day Disyraah.
1. Intro / Silent Lay The Gentle Lamb 07:00
2. A Serenade Of Agony 06:03
3. Transmogrified 02:56
4. Pain And Pleasure Incarnate 06:46
5. The Watcher 05:14
6. The Mind Rampant 05:24
7. Reincarnation / Time Flies 03:36
8. The Forgotten 03:37
Lars Bangsholt — guitar
Jakob Schultz
— bass / lead guitar
Jacob Hansen
— drums / lead guitar / back-up vocals
Day Disyraah
(Dan Swanö) — vocals / keyboard / piano /
back-up vocals
Maceration is an almost unknown band from Denmark and the only
thing that can make it more famous is the presence of Dan Swano
in the line up, at the voice. The group’s style is a quite common death
metal that reminds me a much better band in those years, Master.
The vocals are very similar, not too death with thrash influences. The
thing you can hear immediately is the guitar sound, so loud compared to
the drums and the voice.
The band plays quite well but the songs are sometimes boring and too
long for my death metal standard…the guitars parts sometimes just reach a
level of mediocrity and the drums production is low, not enough to give
a strong support to the violence of the guitars. When the drums enter
the songs, especially from the mid paced to up tempo, they are not
powerful enough and jet from here you can understand that this is not a
masterpiece.
After a small piano intro the first song is violent but not catchy
and the playing time surely doesn’t help…the songs are too long in my
opinion. The guitars solos are a bit general and only in the final song
"The Forgotten” you can hear good ones. I liked the frontal assault of
songs like "Trasmogrified” or "The Watcher” but on the
other hand a song like the title track is quite boring.
Sometimes, speed apart, the good things come when the tempo is very slow
with growls, achieving the goal of creating a rotten atmosphere so well
done by Obituary.
"Pain And Pleasure Incarnate” is quite a good song where the
slower parts are very evil and rotten and there are more tempo changes.
The refrain is good and more catchy than in the other songs. The main
thrashy riff on "Mind Rampant” songs is good for making some
headbanging while the song, like the other ones, is constantly balanced
between to some good parts and some more boring.
It is very difficult to give a mark to this album, but I have to warn
you that this is not a masterpiece; it’s just a mediocre, in some
points quite good, album that surely it’s not necessary to have in your
metal collection. The brutality is present but it could have been much
better and a bit shorter in my opinion. If you want a great dose of
death/thrash with nuts listen to Master’s "On the Seventh
Day…” , it’s much better.
Credits:
Recorded at Redhouse Studio, Odense, Denmark, 6th-10th of September
1991.
Produced and mixed by Soren Fabian, Lars Lindun and Maceration.
All music composed, arranged and performed by Maceration
Lars Bangsholt: guitar
Jakob Schultz: bass / lead guitar
Jacob Hansen: drums / lead guitar / back-up vocals
Day Disyraah: vocals / keyboard / piano / back-up vocals
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