SEPTIC FLESH Mystic Places Of Dawn 2 x LP

SEPTIC FLESH Mystic Places Of Dawn 2 x LP

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(The Crypt)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
     The latest in an ongoing vinyl reissue campaign that The Crypt is doing for cult avant-garde death metallers Septic Flesh, this new double LP edition of the band's debut album Mystic Places Of Dawn was specifically re-mastered for this new vinyl release, and comes in a gatefold package that lovingly replicates the design and Boris Vallejo-pilfering cover art of the original release on Holy Records. Thanks to these new reissues that I've been picking up, I've been on a huge Septic Flesh kick lately, getting more and more immersed in the dark progressive death metal that these guys have been creating over the past two decades.
     Back in 1994 when Mystic Places Of Dawn first came out, these guys were playing a much rougher, rawer version of the death metal sound that they'd eventually refine into the bombastic blackened orchestrations or pummeling industrialized deathcrush of more recent albums like Communion. Their symphonic aspirations were already present back then, but the band had to utilize some relatively primitive synthesizer sequences that were a ways off from the full-blown orchestra they'd use on later albums. It all still sounds killer here though, as Mystic blends together their mix of crushing doomdeath and darkly majestic metal with lots of spacey vintage-sounding synths and macabre keyboard melodies; there's a primitive charm to this stuff, sometimes sounding like parts of a Richard Band score, while the songs themselves move from atmospheric, sepulchral heaviness and blasting violence to brief dalliances with synth-drenched ambience and the occasional burst of proggy weirdness. This sound would be copied by legions of bands in the wake of Mystic Places, but it still retains its peculiar, eerie power, and was pretty avant-garde for the time when it came out. It had supremely sinister songcraft in songs like "Crescent Moon" and "The Underwater Garden", laced with a uniquely Mediterranean vibe that takes shape in the eerie folky violin melodies, booming tympani and hand-drum rhythms that surface throughout the album, but there's other stuff on here that doesn't sound anything like the Hellenic black/death that these guys came from, like the bizarre, almost drum n' bass like drumming patterns that emerge at the end of "Behind The Iron Mask", or the almost jazzy keyboard sounds that pop up here and there, or the fusion of regal, Mortiis-esque dungeon synth and soundtracky orchestration that makes up the sweeping closer "Mythos (Part I: Elegy, Part Ii: Time Unbounded)".   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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