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Get fresh music recommendations delivered to your inbox every Friday. Communion by Septicflesh. VenusAdonis Spiros has the voice of my sleep paralysis demon. Only word to describe this album is "massive". Favorite track: Annubis. Alex Gore. Favorite track: Sunlight Moonlight. Fabiandemonic This is the track that caught my attention and blew my mind. I needed to get the album. Horns Up to these Metal Warriors! Favorite track: Lovecraft's Death. Travis "Jukebox". Troy Jones. Ronen Orland.

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Underlining this fierceness with haunting gothic melodies the band has added an epic dimension by including a full classical orchestra. The Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague joins these triumphant compositions with 80 instrumentalists and a choir of 32 singers to stunning effect! Also available on hoodies, tank tops, and more at shopusa. Get all 8 Septicflesh releases available on Bandcamp. Sold Out. Sign up for price alert. The Greek legend has finally returned from its undead slumber to unleash brooding visions of much darker times and space unto an unsuspecting world.

Underlining this fierceness with haunting gothic melodies the band has added an epic dimension by including a full classical orchestra. The Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague joins these triumphant compositions with 80 instrumentalists and a choir of 32 singers to stunning effect!

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However, I find the rest of the lyrics on the growling parts to be quite competent. I think it has more to do with a desire to create an easily singable hook.

However, the results are atrocious. At only 39 minutes, this is still a really good album. Even if you are like me and don't enjoy the second half, you don't have to suffer it for long. The longest of the latter tracks, Persepolis, actually has some enjoyable moments to help break up the crummier ones.

If you are looking for for the same ideas presented here but more consistently, grab the spectacular The Great Mass an Titan. One of the great things about metal music these days is the need for innovation and integration.

There are many bands that combine elements of other genres, such as classical and operatic influences that really bring the music up a notch with regards to the power of the musical message being offered to the listener. There are some bands that take this approach of integration to a whole new level.

Their bombastic classical arrangements compliment the sheer aggression of the music and gives the listener an exquisite extreme metal experience. Another such band is Septic Flesh or in this case, Septicflesh. These Greeks are one of the great bands coming out of the Aegean and set the bar high for others to follow. Here we have "Communion", their first full length release post breakup. This was my first introduction to the band, and I was impressed with the elements of powerful classical music; namely a nod toward Gustav Holst's "The Planets", and Wagnerian emotive movements.

There are many huge horn sections, especially in the first five songs. We get a hint of some of the later tracks and what they will offer, which would be from the track "Anubis Gate".

In this track, we not only have hard-hitting horns and driving extreme metal melodies. We are also introduced to a semi-power metal vocal style that is coupled with the death metal growls. A typical recipe for these songs is driving blast-beat laden death metal with the growling vocals for the verses, and headbang-worthy bridges and choruses. This is also where the heaviest orchestrations take place, and the songs are elevated from "pretty good" to "fucking awesome" within a few bars of music.

Unfortunately, this excellent formula goes awry, and it will be here that I attempt to convey my irritation for the deviation about to take place.

First and foremost, there is a brooding, and angry tone to the entire album that brings thoughts of Dante's Inferno, and the deepest depths of Hades. These deviations are what throws the wheels off this speeding freight train. To me, these songs turn the momentum gained from the first half of the album into something akin to an wheeler needing to use the runaway truck off-ramps that are nothing but big sand pits.

This album is plowing away, eating up the miles of the musical highway, until there is a big old sand pit right in front of it, and saps all momentum in a flash. Sure there is the death metal element, and growling vocals, but if you take a look at the musical elements and lyrics, something doesn't match up right.

It has a pop metal feel, with the clean pseudo-power metal vocals, a complete lack of underlying anger, and the subject matter in the lyrics are MUCH less mythological and occult-like in nature. It feels completely out of place, and the same exact thing can be said about the final track on the album, Narcissus.

There is absolutely no atmosphere and is a straight-up mid-paced melodic death metal song. What it is lacking in atmosphere, it does make up in a mid-song solo, which is not too bad; but the damage is done. These two tracks seem to me to be thrown in there willy-nilly because they were out of ideas, material, or both, and does a huge disservice to the rest of the recording.

What makes things worse, is these two out of place tracks bookend songs of the same vein as the first half and make the misstep even more grossly apparent to the listener. Despite this however, this is a whale of an album, and is a great listen.

I highly recommend this for fans of bands like The Project Hate, and Rotting Christ, as well as any other death metal band that infuses crushing death metal with classical influences. The 21st century Septic Flesh, which takes its sweet time plotting and refining its Gothic death metal legacy into blazing, unforgettable hymns of eloquent brutality and extravagance, has continued to scale in quality which each consecutive release.

Sumerian Daemons went beyond a just recompense for the seasoned Greeks' sole stumbling block Revolution DNA , and through Communion, they've honed and polished their modus operandi to new, streamlined heights with even better balanced and catchier songwriting than nearly any of their back catalog, and the one exception, Ophidian Wheel, simply can't match the stunning production values here; rich and fulfilling, dark and exotic, an impeccable median between modernism and antiquity. Communion is, at its core, a celebration of all of the band's previous iterations, a hybrid of Goth and death and doom, with an undercurrent of weighted grooves and searing, longing melodies that even succeeds in one-upping Revolution DNA at its own game.

The architecture is truly extraordinary, with each track providing both refreshing thrills and memorable compositions that the listener will be constantly rewarded with. The orchestration is perfectly laid out behind the central chug and churn so as to rob it of ever succumbing to ennui, and the guttural vocals and choirs incessantly struggle with one another as if a grudge match of the seraphic and unholy, with that same Far Eastern melodic mysticism bands like Therion and Celtic Frost once tapped into during their primes.

Some might balk at the Greeks' constant use of chugging, prevalent low end guitars here, but I can assure you that they are all means to a glorious, mighty end that excuses their cultural primacy. A paean of old.

A patient, pagan beast. The hooks are immediate here, with "Lovecraft's Death" ensnaring the listener with its tide of male and female choirs, layered bark and rasp, incendiary melodic glaze, double bass barrage, and the roiling, thickness of its muted substrate. The horns cut straight through, conjuring images of the fell empires, mad Arabs and arcane abominations implicit in the titular author.

But then, just as quickly, Septic Flesh have changed up the formula with their tribute to Egypt's jackal faced death deity, "Anubis", which opens with dreary, memorable clean guitars before the sailing, desert melodies ensues. The title track receives merit for its chaotic surge into one of the more belligerent, ominous bridges on the album, just after the minute mark, in which Fotis Benardo beats the living fuck out of his kit while cautionary orchestration bleats out in the background and Spiros' vocals grumble like an earthquake.

Hell, they even one-up Revolution DNA with a similar creation called "Sangreal" which sows the same, accessible seeds of sharper, clean vocals over driving rock chords, but then manages to tilt back the scale with its brutal bridge. The one area in which I didn't find myself completely drawn in to the album was the lyrics, which often feel a bit cliche and simplistic.

For example, their tribute to H. Lovecraft plays like a potpourri of fanboy references rather than allusion of truly obscure horror which the man deserves. It's not that I can't appreciate the simplicity of the images, but I too often felt that the music itself was more poetic than the words. However, as I've been reminded many times by fellow metal fans that they pay attention to lyrics about as often as delinquent medical bills, I suppose this is not the most capacious of gripes.

And in every other category, Communion is one of this band's highlights, a sensor staring into both the future and the past. In all honesty when I first heard the name Septicflesh I was not all that interested in hearing them. Call it ignorance or basing a band solely on their name, but I thought they were a grindcore band more than anything. I mean with a name like Septicflesh surely most would come to that assumption. Recently, a friend of mine sent me one of their songs, which was "Lovecraft's Death.

Hailing from Grece, the same country as Rotting Christ, a band I am also quite fond of, Septic Flesh offer the same atmosphere as Rotting Christ, but they are a great deal heavier.

What really struck me about this album first of all was the use of the synth. This provided the album with a very eerie atmosphere at some parts of the record, but at other parts for example in "Sunlight Moonlight" it provided more of an uplifting atmosphere. Albums with such mood altering use of atmosphere are very rare to me, but this is what makes this album so enjoyable.

The second aspect that struck a chord with me no pun intended was the riffing. The guitars do not sound overly complex, however they are very audible and provide some parts in songs that would make any metal fan want to headbang along. I also really enjoyed the drumming. It may not have been technical either, but it kept a great tempo that flowed nicely with the guitar. The only drawback I find in this album is that the vocals seem to take a back seat to the instruments.

I would like to be able to have the vocals a little more audible, but this may be because I myself am a death metal vocalist and I am biased towards vocals over anything else. Aside from this one minor detail Septicflesh's Communion offers an emotion provoking listen coupled with excellent musicianship. I would strongly recommend this release to anyone who is a fan of Rotting Christ or other atmospheric bands who are interested.