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An explosive mix where Grindcore, Brutal, Death, and Progressive architectures blend. Nitroglycerin 100%.
This is the essence of Epitaph, the latest album by the German band Necrophagist.
An album technically perfect, but with a hint of repetitiveness, which nonetheless does not diminish its value.
These are the names to remember:
Christian Muenzner - Guitar
Hannes Grossmann - Drums
Stefan Fimmers - Bass
Muhammed Suicmez - Guitar / Vocals
All musicians have little to envy technically from Dream Theater.
All this sonic mayhem is composed of tight and extreme growl vocals (that spit lyrics worthy of Cannibal Corpse), tight and powerful riffs, fast and extremely technical solos, a very proggy bass (the first 5 seconds of Only Ash Remains are marvelous), and a perpetual double-bass drum. The best tracks are Epitaph, Stabwound, and Only Ash Remains.
An album for those who love the violence conveyed musically (but also for violence for its own sake), for those who love technicalities and virtuosity pushed to the limit, and for those who simply want to go wild and wreck themselves (group moshing recommended after 15 beers).
One of the most technical albums I've ever had the chance to hear.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Stabwound (02:48)
[Leadfill: Suicmez]
Invisible blades penetrate
whereas stabwounds are not detectable.
Stabwound
The blade that stabs a back,
unsuspecting, forms the symbolic...
stabwound
[Leadfill: Suicmez]
[Solo: Muenzner]
There is no shield to protect from
attacks led by the ones one used to trust.
Stabwound
The blade that stabs a back,
unsuspecting, forms the symbolic...
stabwound
03 Ignominious and Pale (04:01)
If it is to be only
an element of a whole,
To hide behind others
And form the eclipse of mind.
Ignominious and pale.
If it were to one
having nothing to tell,
This would equal
A state of being the one,
Ignominious and pale.
Fallen in the abyss of indignity,
Doubt does not exist
or come into being. Pale...
Incarceration of personality
Is the sad inception of self-denial..
The one that denies the inner self
Flees into deception.
(Solo: Suicmez)
Incarceration of personality
Is the sad inception of self-denial
06 Only Ash Remains (04:11)
Fear is never gone from your soul
that saw humiliation.
Being prey to the blackest of demons,
paralyzed you fail.
Fallen beneath
the mark of dignity,
you fail.
(A) demon passed on from one
to the next infiltrates
a mind innocent and pure;
planting the seed to possess
another soul that is doomed to fail.
Only Ash Remains
[Solos: Muenzner/ Suicmez/ Muenzner/ Suicmez]
(A) demon passed on from one
to the next infiltrates
a mind innocent and pure;
being prey to the blackest
of demons, paralyzed they fail.
Fallen beneath
the mark of dignity,
they fail.
Only Ash Remains
08 Symbiotic in Theory (04:35)
Unable to move from a point of view,
driven by reasons as old as time itself.
Symbiotic In Theory
In order for a life to be
commanded it must be owned.
Symbiotic In Theory
Gravity forces water
to flow downhill,
a will is not given.
Inferior or superior,
will is that which decides.
Gravity forces water
to flow downhill,
a will is not given.
To give and take, to be...
Symbiotic In Theory
[Solos: Muenzner/ Suicmez]
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