EPSILON “Zu Richten”

Mighty Music, 2015

Music: Death Metal
Website: www.facebook.com/epsilonthrash
Duration: 45:52 minutes (11 tracks)
Country: Austria

EPSILON is the second Austrian band that I have opportunity to review in the same week. However, EPSILON presents a radically different genre of Metal. The band follows in the direction of their countrymen from PUNGENT STENCH or DISHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. However the band musically is more associated with the music of early ENTOMBED.

The material “Zu richten” was recorded in Stage One Studio under the direction of Andy Classen (he worked with e.g. DESTRUCTION and KRISIUN). The musicians decided to put songs in two languages on the album, some in English and some in German. Also, the vocal phrases are in two colors. The greater part of this is the savage growling, and the second part is the hysterical screams typical for Grindcore style. This all in connection with the mega-heavy and crushing guitar riffs and powerful drums makes all sounds very brutal and deadly. Even the momentary decelerations crush mercilessly. And the razor-sharp guitar solos outright disembowel. Although the guitars sometimes create some melodics introducing the deadly melancholy. I used the word “deadly” because it is still massacring Death Metal.

The song “Im Namen Gottes” is something of phenomenon on the album, because rarely occur instrumental tracks in Death Metal, and the more that the arrangement presents the short dark and trance guitar arpeggios.

The lyrics of EPSILON show subjects related to human self-consciousness about the negative behavior and morality as well as the rights of animals.

Tracklist:
01. Explicit Enough?
02. Witness My Transformation Evisceration
03. I Shall Feast On The Flesh Of My Enemies
04. Ein Zarter Hauch Von Menschlichkeit
05. Torn Apart By The Righteous Animals Of This World
06. Nutzmensch Agonie
07. Can They Suffer?
08. Die Lebenden Und Die Toten
09. Im Namen Gottes
10. Die Schuld Des Lebens
11. Die Erl?sung Der Menschheit

Line-up:
Krise – vocals
Freaky – guitar
Schmidi- guitar
Urge- drums
Mecki- bass

Rate: 7.5/10