SEPTIC FLESH Communion LP

SEPTIC FLESH Communion LP

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(The Crypt)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
     One of a couple of new Septic Flesh vinyl reissues that have come out thus far in 2015, Communion is one of the more recent albums from the influential Greek death metal band Septic Flesh, a punishing and progressive assault of razor-sharp left-field death metal and symphonic grandeur that came out back in 2008, and which continues to blow me away every time I listen to it. While those earlier Septic Flesh albums hold a lot of murky, moldering charm with their rotten, dreamlike atmospherics and weird doom-laden progressive death metal, their more technically advanced work that appeared later in their career delivers a whole different sort of sonic violence. With Communion, Septic Flesh set their epic, dark heaviness against a backdrop of brutal, bombastic orchestral sound that was produced by an actual orchestra instead of the usual backing synthesizers; they used the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir for this album, which gives the music on Communion a depth and gravity rarely felt when listening to death metal bands that incorporate orchestral or classical elements into their sound.
     Continuing to mine the themes of mythology, magic and mysticism that have appeared all throughout their work, Communion maintains its intensity across these ten tracks, introducing elements of black metal via the frigid tremolo riffing laced throughout some of these tracks, and even some crushing gothic rock on songs like "Anubis" and "Sunlight/Moonlight", where dramatic crooning vocals emerge from volleys of monstrous, guttural roaring, and the music slips into dark driving hooks from bursts of terrifying blastbeat-riddled violence. All of this stuff is delivered with top-notch musicianship and a massive production, creating a uniquely powerful experience that's all the more impressive when the music suddenly gives way to just the sound of the orchestra's string sections or the tympani-like percussion, those moments injecting evocative scenes of ancient Hellenic drama amid the heavier material, and those sequences can be reminiscent of everything from Elend to the most malevolent Jerry Goldsmith score. So much of this album is like a dark, avant-garde orchestral film score intertwining with a heady blend of militant, complex death metal and soaring gloom-rock, and no one has ever combined these elements quite the way that Septic Flesh did here. It's catchy, crushing, and stunningly produced, and for this new vinyl reissue, ends with a bonus track, an experimental, orchestral version of "Anubis" that had previously only been available on a Japanese release of the album.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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