[size=+1]Vehemence
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Helping The World To See
Metal Blade 2828 Cochran, Suite 302 Simi Valley CA USA
http://www.metalblade.com805-522-9111
metal,death metal,
By Chris Ayers
September 07, 2004
You cant judge a book by its cover, unless its a metal album. With eye-popping cover art by the famous Wes Benscoter (Mortician, Slayer, Broken Hope), Arizonas Vehemence almost cant go wrong. Front-man Nathan Gearharts vocal chords were cut from the same loom as those of Deicides Glen Benton and their music has definitely become more brutal than their aggro-prog/thrash days circa their 2000 self-released debut, The Thoughts From Which I Hide. Openers By Your Bedside and Kill For God, introduce more melodic death grooves firmly rooted in the NWOSDM, while Trinity Broadcasting (Know Your Enemy) is more of the same, though tinged with Monstrosity undertones. The piano-peppered, You Dont Have To Be Alone Anymore, invokes the goth gods with a moody intro before diving headlong into the grinding fray. Guitarists Bjorn Dannov and John Chavez trade licks like Maidens Murray and Smith on one the albums definitive highlights. The mostly instrumental, Alone In Your Presence, is an acoustic-based number that morphs from Tiamats Wildhoney to a full-on electric and emo-ish outro, like a cross between Novembers Doom and Elliott. The (old) Metallica-like Spirit Of The Soldier incorporates chromatics and super drum mixing, while Darkness Is Comfort, What Could Go Wrong? and We Are All Dying offer much of the same brutality as before. Originally on the bands first demo in 1998, the re-recorded Her Beautiful Eyes is true old-school death not at all At The Gates-influenced (which makes one wonder what type of band Vehemence would be today if they had stayed their original course). The album also sports CD-ROM live footage from every stage of their career, working backwards from 2004 to 1997. With a well-defined (and documented) Swedish slant, Vehemence are on their way to becoming the angels of death on this side of the pond.
http://exclaim.ca/index.asp?layid=23&csid1=10762
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http://www.metalblade.com805-522-9111
September 07, 2004
You cant judge a book by its cover, unless its a metal album. With eye-popping cover art by the famous Wes Benscoter (Mortician, Slayer, Broken Hope), Arizonas Vehemence almost cant go wrong. Front-man Nathan Gearharts vocal chords were cut from the same loom as those of Deicides Glen Benton and their music has definitely become more brutal than their aggro-prog/thrash days circa their 2000 self-released debut, The Thoughts From Which I Hide. Openers By Your Bedside and Kill For God, introduce more melodic death grooves firmly rooted in the NWOSDM, while Trinity Broadcasting (Know Your Enemy) is more of the same, though tinged with Monstrosity undertones. The piano-peppered, You Dont Have To Be Alone Anymore, invokes the goth gods with a moody intro before diving headlong into the grinding fray. Guitarists Bjorn Dannov and John Chavez trade licks like Maidens Murray and Smith on one the albums definitive highlights. The mostly instrumental, Alone In Your Presence, is an acoustic-based number that morphs from Tiamats Wildhoney to a full-on electric and emo-ish outro, like a cross between Novembers Doom and Elliott. The (old) Metallica-like Spirit Of The Soldier incorporates chromatics and super drum mixing, while Darkness Is Comfort, What Could Go Wrong? and We Are All Dying offer much of the same brutality as before. Originally on the bands first demo in 1998, the re-recorded Her Beautiful Eyes is true old-school death not at all At The Gates-influenced (which makes one wonder what type of band Vehemence would be today if they had stayed their original course). The album also sports CD-ROM live footage from every stage of their career, working backwards from 2004 to 1997. With a well-defined (and documented) Swedish slant, Vehemence are on their way to becoming the angels of death on this side of the pond.
http://exclaim.ca/index.asp?layid=23&csid1=10762
