Ephel Duath "Hemmed by Light, Shaped by Darkness"

Country: Italy
Sub Genre: Progressive Avant-garde Metal
Label: Agonia Records
Release date: November 19, 2013
Tracklist: 

1. Feathers Under My Skin - 07:05
2. Tracing The Path of Blood - 07:23
3. When Mind Escapes Flesh - 07:51
4. Within This Soil - 06:52
5. Those Gates to Nothing - 06:30
6. Through Flames I Shield - 06:41
7. Hemmed By Light - 01:55
8. Shaped By Darkness - 07:29

Line-up: 
Davide Tiso - guitars
Karyn Crisis - vocals
Bryan Beller - bass
Marco Minemann - drums
   With
Erik Rutan - guitar and backing vocals

Description/Reviews: 

As far as the musical approach on Hemmed By Light, Shaped By Darkness is concerned, the style of the band is much how it always has been – very experimental and wholly out of the box. Karyn Crisis is certainly noteworthy for being able to keep up with such whimsical structures as those echoed forth on this wildly playful release; it certainly manages to take elements of jazz, progressive rock, death metal and post metal and mix them all together in an oddly distorted form that not only causes the liquid to turn all sorts of vibrant colors, but also manages to misshape the pot and the room in which such a brew was being mixed. The work is so experimental that five years worth of riff patterns were most certainly used on each of these tracks, yet I could not find one that stood out any more or less than the others. Each one of these eight tracks, with the exception of the interlude (“Hemmed By Light”) certainly seem to reflect the same atmosphere and lyrical subject matter relating to matters of the higher self and soul-searching.

Read the full review by Eric May at newnoisemagazine.com

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