The amount of raw malevolent energy that can be heard on Anticreation’s debut album, “From the Dust of Embers,” is almost inconceivable at times, and you question whether or not this band is being guided by some dark spiritual entity. The mixture of vile sounding black metal and ruthless sounding old school death metal is what makes these Greek extreme metal musicians vividly standout.
The overall album is an utterly brutal assault of abhorrent creativity that marches to the beat of an insidious war drum looking to slaughter all which stands in this band's way. From start to finish the band demands your attention, and the arrangements are written with tremendous malice and keen extreme metal prowess. This shouldn’t come as a surprise that the band is working with Sentient Ruin on the release of this album, as the label always proves to be a great judge of extreme artistic talent.
If Anticreation was to have favored one style of extreme music on this release instead of having that strong balance, I do not believe the album would have caught my attention like it did. As much as you hear bands mixing black metal and old school death metal fairly often nowadays, you still find that some artists end up getting stuck in the repetitive cycle of writing very forgettable and generic extreme sounding compositions that lack a certain level of profound presentation. I believe an album's overall atmosphere and strong recording quality can really help a band achieve that extra edge over the usual modern extreme metal acts, and Anticreation seemed to have achieved that on this album.
The first track, “Faith’s Demystification,” reminded me of something that you would hear at the beginning of an occult themed horror film where you are left with this feeling that something terrifying is about to commence. I like how the track built up suspense and then out of no where comes a bombastic sounding guitar riff to setup up the next track, “From the Dust of Embers.” The band holds nothing back by unleashing a thunderstorm of sickening blackened death metal to overwhelm listeners with a sea of gruesome distortion. The third track, “The Beauty of Lava,” raises the brutality to another level and the singer provides some unbelievably monstrous vocal parts. This band definitely pays attention to when they want to slow things down to create an ominous sounding landscape, but they also recognize when to speed up the tempo to send listeners back into a chaotic instrumental firestorm of relentless aggression.
Throughout the rest of the album I found that the songwriting and musicianship always seemed to be extremely tight sounding, thus making for a strong overall listening experience. “A Journey Into the Throat of Death,” is one song that really impressed me and conveyed a very raw old school death metal sound, yet also utilized some very hellish sounding ambient noises. The band never seems to just slap together a song, and once they begin a track you are presented with this furious rush of unapologetic artistic expression until the distortion fades away. Plus, the drumming is out of this world at times like on the track, “Unborn,” which I thought featured some pulverizing blast beats.
I would say that Anticreation is a band that definitely compliments the Sentient Ruin roster quite well with their debut album, “From the Dust of Embers.” The band captures the pure hateful essence of unforgiving extreme metal music by composing tracks that exude true pestilence and disgust. Some bands can say that they despise humanity and that they are the baddest dudes around, but then when you hear their music they sound like a Dollar Store version of Morbid Angel. That is definitely not the case with Anticreation, because this band records music with a merciless passion to strike fear in the hearts and minds of all those who wish to defy their profound brutality.
Check out the song "From the Dust of Embers" below (Also, album comes out July 8th with Sentient Ruin handling distribution for the Americas and Nuclear Winter Records handling the distribution for Europe):
Sentient Ruin Bandcamp:
https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/
Nuclear Winter Records (Europe) :
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