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░ ██ ██ Artist: Pathogen ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Ashes of Eternity █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2017 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2018-04-13 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Death Metal ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Old Temple ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ Extremely obscure and fiercely evil, those are the █
█ words which perfectly describe Pathogen's fourth █
█ studio full-length offering "Ashes of Eternity". █
█ Everything in this album, from the song writing to █
█ the production, is quite impressively constructed █
█ and done. Sixteen years of crafting morbid and █
█ gruesome forthright death metal music had made █
█ these Filipino quartet masters of their domain. █
█ The guitar riffs present here is utterly straight █
█ forward, fast, and entirely dark in nature. The █
█ tone interlude advocates a number of tension and █
█ uncertainty which gives the listeners that feeling █
█ of something bad is about to take place. Despite █
█ being simple and uncomplicated, the riffs are █
█ extremely expressive and powerful. After all, █
█ simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication. █
█ There are also a number of memorable solos that █
█ can be found here. These solos are really █
█ satisfactory and shredded, which momentarily █
█ permits the audiences to let flow all of their █
█ anger and resentment. █
█ As we go deeper into the crusty and smoggy portion █
█ of the album, the guitars will conceal you in a █
█ mass of dissonant insanity with the drums █
█ establishing an unforeseeable hellish pummeling. █
█ The drum work is obviously worthy of praise, █
█ especially the speed and power of the blasting. █
█ The drummer had dispensed loads of savage drumming █
█ which is clearly designed to pulverize the █
█ listeners' eardrums. Furthermore, the bass █
█ provided in this release creates a very █
█ clandestine and dismal atmosphere, one that only a █
█ few death metal groups could ever accomplished. It █
█ also ideally compliments the riffing style of the █
█ guitars. █
█ I would also like to praise the front man for his █
█ imposing vocal execution. The delivery is in █
█ really deep and pain-tormented growls, and they █
█ are a great fit with the rest of the elements in █
█ the record. That ultra deep, low, and guttural █
█ vocals sound pretty much like the weeping from █
█ souls trapped in the depths of hell. It's really █
█ hard to find a faulty section in this album. From █
█ the slow to fast and to the mid-paced tunes, the █
█ offering is loaded with great fragments that we █
█ can only find in mandatory death metal releases. █
█ This offering of Pathogen will take you to a back █
█ and forth roller-coaster ride of anguish and █
█ desolation that only few best death metal bands █
█ can conjure. █
█ In summation, this magnum opus of an album is a █
█ proof that if a band can combine its influences in █
█ a staggering orientation, and is evidently charged █
█ with a passion to crush everything on its path, █
█ the outcome is relentless to say the least. What █
█ Pathogen had provided us here is a record that is █
█ essential and mandatory to own. From the great █
█ music to the awesome cover art, "Ashes of █
█ Eternity" is without a doubt a quality release. █
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░ 1. Cinis Aeturnus (Intro) 1:28 ░
░ 2. Apocryphal Visions 4:54 ░
░ 3. Burning in Abysmal Ruins 5:18 ░
░ 4. Deathvomit 4:07 ░
░ 5. A Graven Frost 7:44 ░
░ 6. Into the Endless Grey 6:09 ░
░ 7. Genetic Threat 4:55 ░
░ 8. Necrolatric Sorcery 4:16 ░
░ 9. Crematorial Destiny 6:54 ░
░ 45:45 ░
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