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Lost Soul
Chaostream
Release Date: 17th January on Earache
written by Alex
Lost Soul have been around forever, and have worked hard to get where they
are right now. Having already produced albums for Osmose productions and
Relapse (who clearly did fuck all for this awesome band) Lost Soul finally
find themselves on Wicked World/Earache, who at least seem to know what to do with their death metal.
Simply, Lost Soul are one to put up there with Death Du Jour, Cryptopsy,
Decapitated et al. They enter the league of death metal bands that Alex
thinks are really cool. This obviously means fuck all to anyone but me, but
there is a definable quality across all these bands, and obviously, being
the band in question, within Lost Soul, which raises them above a lot of
other extreme metal which I consider a bagotripe. With this sort of band
it is usually down to having great riffs and drum work that you can actually
vaguely hear/figure out as opposed to it simply going
rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat etcetera.
Lost Soul have these in abundance and, cleverly, inject the influence of
other genres such as doom, thrash and black metal (the good bits). This,
therefore, keeps my attention and keeps the songs in my head. The solos rule
as well screaming forth from the speakers at the most opportune moments
and not outstaying their welcome. Well done.
The artwork is the usual dodgy death crap and they all look metal and
stupid, but you cant have it all. One day, maybe one day?.