A Vintage Death - Acrid Death Fragrance (2018)
Making his debut with this EP, the
one-man band of A Vintage Death emerges with five tracks, coming
together for slightly under half an hour of material. Working a
blend of death doom with touches of black metal, the music focuses on
an atmosphere of gloom and ambiguous danger, and while there's often
a brutal edge to the delivery, there's also a considerable amount of
attention paid to the melodic side.
The fusion style allows Carmine
d'Annibale, the mind behind the project, to shift through a variety
of speeds in short succession, slipping from the intensity of quick
beatings into brooding downtempo action, and the flexibility of that
aspect shades the other instrumentation as well. While the guitar
often comes through in a droning grind, it's laced into the beats and
bass with such deftness that the difficulty of assembling all the
parts single-handedly can be easy to forget.
The production is, as might be expected
of a one-person project, on the rougher side, but that suits the mood
and energy of the music, for the most part. A little more separation
of the instruments wouldn't be unwanted, but as it is, it effectively
evokes the olden days of each of the constituent styles. All
together, it's quite an enjoyable experiment, and one which I hope
will see follow-up releases.
~ Gabriel
For Fans Of; Altar of
Betelgeuze, Amort, Battle Path, The Maledict, NEST
~
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