ESSENCE OF EXISTENCE „Tome III: Terra Mentis””

Music: Progressive Symphonic Black Metal
Website: www.essenceofexistence.com
Duration: 52 minutes (11 tracks)
Country: Slovakia

Spanish company Mandongo Canibale Records this time have caught in fishing-net a horde from Slovakia – ESSENCE OF EXISTENCE – with them third album entitled “Tome III: Terra Mentis”. I regret that I did not listen earlier albums of this band, because them third material is very high class Symphonic Black Metal with progressive tendencies.

The music oscillates in very quick paces with slowdowns for change of climate. The whole is arranged so very richly creating a uniform dark-musical substance. There is impossible to reach to all sounds during one listening the album. The tracks assemble in themselves many classic Black/Death Metal patents with innumerable quantity of ornamentation in style of keyboards, the feminine singing and the futuristic samples. The heavy riffs, the monumental rhythmical section, the multicoloured vocals in connection with a melody and symphonic moments create very varied climate, from mad fury until melancholy exaltations.

I think that sometimes I heard similarities to EMPEROR, DIMMU BORGIR, CRADLE OF FILTH, CHILDREN OF BODOM, AMORPHIS and them similar, but these are my subjective feelings. First of all I should mark that it is not classic Black Metal music. This is very developed kind of Black Metal music, where in moments there are Progressive Death Metal motives.

note: 9.0/10

Tracklist

Proem: Creations
1. Born 1010011010
One: Of History
2. Spiritless
3. Mindechoes
4. Desire Fragments
Two: Reveal The Future
5. Implanted Reveries
6. Cryotomb
7. Bewildered Reason
Three: Where The Daemons Hide
8. Ageless Forrest Silence
9. Thunders Of Dissolution
10. Unveiled Astral Paths
Epilogue: Their Legacy
11. Components Of God

Line-up

Astral: Guitars, Vocals, Programming
Technology: Guitars, Programming, Vocals
n-gh': Bass & Vocals
Fear: Keyboards & Vocals