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Rating: Everything begins in 1992, when today's L6B6T6MY call themselves "Matanza" and propose their thrash metal led by frontman Pablo Braga (vocals - guitar).
Shortly after, they change their moniker and genre, starting to play death metal under the name Lobotomy (and no, not the Swedes!).
Between '94 and '98, they release a demo and two full-length albums before disbanding in 1999.
A year later, the band decides to reunite and changes their name once again, opting for a youthful "L6B6T6MY", recording a demo and a full album.
I really want to focus on their last work: "Legions of Beelzebub" (2004) distributed by Concreto Records, which I had the misfortune of purchasing without prior knowledge.
Putting aside for a moment the artwork that's borderline ridiculous, as soon as I unwrap the CD, I find myself holding a promotional flyer that reads "The new masters of the True Satanic Death Metal are rising up!" After listening to the album, reading that sentence will be an excellent way to test my creativity in inventing new curses.
I insert the disc into the player and an intro starts, composed of effects and almost futuristic sounds, creating an overall experience that is really irritating to the ears: one can't say it's not a fitting intro for such a work.
The tracks that follow are utterly flat: the drums lack dynamics and the sound is very plastic, the monotonous vocals overshadow the guitars, allowing them to "emerge" only during the instrumental bridges and, when they are heard, they still offer nothing that could salvage anything from a negative judgment. And the bass? I believe the bassist stayed home that day because there isn't the slightest auditory trace of him.
In summary, if I had a label, I would never sign a product like this, and I feel I've never wasted five euros as much as in this case.
In 2006, the band disbanded after the sad loss of frontman Pablo Braga, who passed away on May 17th due to a car accident in Bolivia.
They shouldn't have waited for such an event to make this decision.
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