AS I DESTRUCT „From Fear To Oblivion”

Firestarter Distribution, 2018

Music: Melodic Death Metal / Black Death Metal / Groove Metal

Website:https://www.facebook.com/AsIDestructBand/

Duration: 49:19 minutes (12 tracks)

Country: Australia

I rarely have the opportunity to listen to something from Australia, so the more I was interested in this music and even more because the band comes from Adelaide – a city whose name sounds like my daughter’s name…

AS I DESTRUCT is only a seemingly young band, because if they did not change the name – QUAERO VERUM, they would soon be celebrating the Xth anniversary. Anyway, “From FearTo Oblivion” is their debut album, which is open by a climatic melancholy piano-string prologue that is kind of a calm before the storm, and in the case of “From Fear To Oblivion” – it is a silence before a powerful hurricane.

Heavy, cutting guitar riffs – fast and technical – are stretched like a devastating typhoon creating a crushing wall of sound, which in combination with very intense drums work creates a base for predatory and monstrous growls, black rasps and screams… Here and there the calmer motifs are trying to break out – like pure guitars, piano passages or melodic solos, causing a source of moderate melancholy.

This Australian tornado has interlocked several species of Extreme Metal creating one huge hurricane, namely the pulse of Groove Metal, the murderous elements of Brutal Death Metal, the technics and melodics of Melodic Death Metal, and the rage and darkness of Black Metal. As a result, it created a horribly devastating energy, intelligent and at the same time furious… brutal and totally deadly… but at the same time melodic.

Epilogue, continuing the musical theme of the prologue, closes the album… Is it portend another silence before the next storm?

Tracklist:

1. Prologue

2. Shattered Hearts

3. Black Tie Stigma

4. Greed Agreement

5. A Question of Faith

6. Asher’s Lullaby

7. My Endless Love

8. Vultures of Virtue

9. Thredson

10. Devil You Know (Devil You Created)

11. Redemption

12. Epilogue

Line-up:

Joshua Liebelt – Bass

Dirk Verbeuren – Drums

Matthew Marotti – Guitars

Luke Dietrich – Vocals

Rate: 8.0/10