Gathering Darkness - The Heat Of A Dying Sun (Necromance
Records)
Release date : May 22nd, 2017
Death Metal
and Latin seems to be a natural fit like tonic and gin. Formed in 1998, Gathering Darkness is a Spanish outfit
that carries the flag of Death Metal in the 1990’s fashion way. Think of Morbid Angel, Hypocrisy, and Vile and you have a good idea of the
meaning of this last phrase.
With all the subgenres and expand of the
Doom/Death, MeloDeath, Technical Death, Brutal Death Metal, it is almost
refreshing to have a Death Metal album that doesn’t wants and need to take part
of any of those tendencies in the genre. With the explosion of bands and
musicians and the diversity of offering from the bandcamp and other streaming
spaces it is interesting to have a band staying true to a genre and excelling
at it. With Gathering Darkness this
is what you get.
While the
stereotypical sayin’ of not reinventing the wheel is applicable here with the
Death Metal of Gathering Darkness, it
is one heck of a headbanging album. The drums are pumping and never end despite
a near distant sounding mastering job, taking the guitars into a highly
preeminent position.
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