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░ ██ ██ Artist: Krysantemia ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Lay Down Forever █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2012 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2016-02-28 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Thrash Metal ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Twilight ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ 2nd-rate Italian thrash metal. █
█ █
█ ItalianÆs Krysantemia were formed in 2009 by the █
█ Secchi brothers, Alessandro & Lucio, with their █
█ line up completed by guitarist Alex Ruggeri and █
█ vocalist Davide Puccini. Soon after getting █
█ together, they self released their debut album █
█ ôThis is Resurrectionö which managed to score them █
█ local gigs as support for the likes of Grave, █
█ Obituary and Kataklysm throughout their next few █
█ years of existence. This is their second album, █
█ and their first to get proper European █
█ distribution by the Italian label New Idols. █
█ First impressions: IÆm greeted with a particularly █
█ bland pale cream cover to the album with only the █
█ text of the band name and album title, as well as █
█ what look like smudgy finger marks. Well, letÆs █
█ just say it doesnÆt exactly inspire me with █
█ confidence. I strain my eyes, tilt my head to the █
█ sideà perhaps IÆm missing something? Is this some █
█ strange sort of magic eye stereogram-styled image █
█ which will suddenly jump out at me? Hmm û nope! █
█ Not even the band logo looks particularly great, █
█ itÆs about as generic as it gets. But, not to be █
█ perturbed û IÆll let the music do the talking, █
█ rather than judging a book by its cover. When I █
█ eventually get the unnecessary minute long intro █
█ track of crackling static and feedback out of the █
█ way, æDark Wedding (Infernal Lovers Reborn)æ kicks █
█ the album off with some mid-paced, grooving █
█ riffage, barking howled vocals (equal parts Tardy █
█ & later Schuldiner) and melody filled bouncing. █
█ æYour PainÆ opens with a riff which sounds like █
█ itÆs been æborrowedÆ from SepulturaÆs æChaos █
█ A.D.Æ, before falling straight into the grooving █
█ rhythms once more, topping off with a solo that █
█ sounds like itÆs fallen right out of the Kirk █
█ Hammett æhow to play guitarÆ handbook. æEnjoy the █
█ SufferingÆ starts off more promisingly, with a █
█ thrashy sounding riffà before dropping back into a █
█ mid-paced sub-core crunching with slow, almost █
█ tribal drumming. █
█ Come the mid-point of the album, and everything is █
█ starting so blur into one big snooze fest, but I █
█ struggle on and continue. If they had the monster █
█ riffs, drive and passion, perhaps 15 years ago I █
█ wouldÆve taken an interest in this album, but as █
█ of 2013 û it really does nothing for me at all and █
█ all feels painfully too late û even when it has a █
█ slightly more extreme edge to it due to the vocals █
█ and some of the riffs. But, this extremity never █
█ really veers into anything more threatening as an █
█ album like ObituaryÆs æBack from the DeadÆ û an █
█ album when Tardy & co were at a creative nadir █
█ with a long period of inactivity looming on the █
█ horizon. █
█ As a whole, IÆd struggle to label this thrash or █
█ even death metal which the bands promo sheet █
█ proudly labels them as. Sure, there are a few █
█ riffs that sound pretty good, some that even sound █
█ truly thrashy or deathly, but for the most part █
█ this album is made up of slow to mid paced █
█ grooving rhythms with a few more plodding metal █
█ riffs chucked in on top, before mixing in more █
█ chugging predictable half-thrash. DonÆt get me █
█ wrong, IÆve heard a shit ton of worse bands for █
█ sure, this is far from crappy nu-metal or any █
█ other bile inducing rancidity. Not wanting to be █
█ on a full downer I do think that they handle their █
█ instruments proficiently for the style of metal █
█ they play, but for me û IÆll pass thank you very █
█ much. The album is about as inspirational as the █
█ cover art you can see above. Thus, life lesson █
█ learned û perhaps I should start judging things by █
█ their covers after all? █
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░ 1. Lay Down Forever (Intro) 0:56 ░
░ 2. Dark Wedding (Infernal Lovers Reborn) 3:44 ░
░ 3. Your Pain 5:17 ░
░ 4. Enjoy the Suffering 6:06 ░
░ 5. Subliminal Prophecies 5:02 ░
░ 6. The Black December 4:26 ░
░ 7. At the Altar of the Cruel Saints 3:24 ░
░ 8. Fight to Forget 2:48 ░
░ 9. Rotten Beauty 3:11 ░
░ 10. Dawn Necrotic and Torn 3:28 ░
░ 38:22 ░
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