Astral Sleep - Angel
Astral Sleep is from Finland and present their 30 minute EP called "Angel" containing the Angel trilogy with three songs named Angel. You might expect some angelic music but actually this is doom/death metal and I guess these guys are more into making fun of this theme than making a serious effort to end up in heaven..
Now to the music.. This EP starts with quite some heavy old school death metal before they make the twist into dark doom metal with clean vocals. The guitars and overall sound of the slower parts reminds me of the "Turn Loose The Swans" album from My Dying Bride and the song just as easily turns into another atmosphere with guitar melodies with a folk touch and black metal like screams. It sounds like they want to pay tribute (or make fun of) a lot of familiar sounding bands because every song is build around certain themes and vocals are obviously exaggerated at times.
This complete mixture of styles is pretty well composed into consistent tracks with a lot of variation and the whole angel mockery and singing about "satan is living in our hearts and god is weak" is pretty humoristic. If you like scandinavian metal, old school death metal and classic doom/death metal and don't take this all to seriously you should check this out for sure. Especially the songs "Angel" and "Angel" are pretty cool.
Now to the music.. This EP starts with quite some heavy old school death metal before they make the twist into dark doom metal with clean vocals. The guitars and overall sound of the slower parts reminds me of the "Turn Loose The Swans" album from My Dying Bride and the song just as easily turns into another atmosphere with guitar melodies with a folk touch and black metal like screams. It sounds like they want to pay tribute (or make fun of) a lot of familiar sounding bands because every song is build around certain themes and vocals are obviously exaggerated at times.
This complete mixture of styles is pretty well composed into consistent tracks with a lot of variation and the whole angel mockery and singing about "satan is living in our hearts and god is weak" is pretty humoristic. If you like scandinavian metal, old school death metal and classic doom/death metal and don't take this all to seriously you should check this out for sure. Especially the songs "Angel" and "Angel" are pretty cool.
1. Angel
2. Angel
3. Angel
Solitude Productions
Reviewer: Nydoom
Sep 14, 2010
Sep 14, 2010
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