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WHEN ALL LIFE ENDS...DECEMBER FLOWERCyclone Empire CDDecember Flower is one new band that has risen from the ashes of German band Chronicles of tyrants (and band members are also involved in troops such as Resurrected or Deviated Presence) and already the band name can tell you what to expect here. If you are thinking about good old days of In Flames and most particularly on one song from their finest album“Jester race“ you are right as December Flower are one group that revels in glory of old Swedish melodic Death / Black scene. Funnily enough, I have been on massive Unanimated kick lately so „When all life ends...“ surely comes in as handy, hehe. As I have already mentioned, December Flower harken back to the embryonic times of In Flames and Dark Tranquillity, but the more precise desctiption would be made to those bands that injected a bit of black metal venom into their death metal so think Unanimated, Cardinal Sin, The Moaning, and the most accurate names are Gates Of Ishtar and Sacrilege... You get the drift. „When all life ends...“ is sounding exactly as the albums from that era, everything is carefully taken care of – from melancholic covers, song titles to those trademark melodies... all in check. The album was produced by band members themselves in their own rehearsal room so the overall result is quite raw and filthy, even more resembling the days of old. The biggest problem of „When all life ends...“ is, of course, total lack of originality; there is nothing new to be heard here as this music was done to perfection by Swedish gods in the mid nineties. The final judgement – is December Flower reliving the glorious days or beating the dead horse – is up to the listener I guess and I am somewhere in between. I can certainly enjoy their good songs and genuine love for the style but on the other hand I cannot escape the notion that I have heard this album in some better versions done by better players in the genre, so I can conclude that December Flower is death metal equivalent of Thulcandra as they are both dealing with the same music, it's just that proportions of black and death metal in their sound are mixed differently... With „When all life ends...“ and albums such as new one of Night In Gales, it seems that Germany wants to return the glory of Swedish scene nowadays! Trifunovic Slobodan (7) |
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