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01. We Who Worship The Black 02. I Sing His Words 03. Sonne Adam 04. Solitude In Death 05. Take Me Back To Where I Belong 06. Shine 07. I Claim My Birth In Blood 08. Transformation 09. Apocalypse
By now everybody is aware of the enormous wave of revivalist death metal bands that appeared two years ago, being this year when the real explosion was heard. When so many bands are basically doing the same thing you just have to follow your instincts. You just know when it's a band that really feels the music they are making or just want to jump on the latest trend (cough Vallenfyre? cough). Fortunately Sonne Adam belongs to the former group with music that displays a considerable amount of passion and dedication for our beloved death metal cult.
It kind of goes without saying what this album is about. Transformation is quite a misleading name in that sense. Want originality? I kindly suggest you to leave. Want modern and/or technical death metal? Get the fuck off. Among this gigantic sea of technical, sterile and plastic "modern" death metal there are bands like Sonne Adam, reminding us what the genre used to be like: simple, effective, and truly evil.
Taking influences from bands like Morbid Angel, Asphyx and especially old Paradise Lost, Transformation offers around 40 minutes of old school death metal. Basically the whole package is here: Morbid and groovy riffs, organic drums, sinister growls and good crunchy/bassy production. These guys decided to spice things up a little bit and put a nice portion of doom on it so the result is deliciously evil and almost gives a ritualistic vibe. Just listen to the first song and feel the fog and its deathly atmosphere slowly surrounding you.
As one of the strongest acts among the revivalist death metal movement, Sonne Adam is also one of the most promising. Now as a part of the Century Media family and with Transformation only as their debut, this young band will get the attention they deserve and the potential to stand shoulder to shoulder with the older bands. So what are you waiting for? Close the curtains, turn off the lights, light some candles and let the ritual begin?
Written by psykometal on 29.12.2011 at 20:29 Although I did enjoy Vallenfyre thank you very much, lol
Hhahahaha Hopefully it didn't sound more harsh that I inteded. That album is good, would give it a good 7 but it feels pretty uninspired to me Thank you for the comment, I was aiming for a short and to the point review.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49 Rod, let me love you.
Hhahahaha Hopefully it didn't sound more harsh that I inteded. That album is good, would give it a good 7 but it feels pretty uninspired to me Thank you for the comment, I was aiming for a short and to the point review.
I personally feel you achieved just what you wanted. As I have not listened to it yet I can't agree or disagree about it's level of inspiration but based on your review and another review I have read about it though I'd say it's quite inspired (by OSDM, lol). I'm probably going to dl when I get home later so I can see what it's all about. Since they apparently fall into the "OSDM Revivalist Movement" I'd say if your feelings of uninspirement stem from it's inability to sound new and refreshing then I would have to retort that since it's "OSDM revival" it's not going to sound "inspired" if you are looking for new and refreshing. However if you think of "inspired" as wanting to revive OSDM and sounding like OSDM and it fulfills the task of "OSDM revival" as well as it sounds like they do then I'd say they are quite inspired from that perspective.
Holy shit there were too many "osdm" words so I had to read slow....*reads comment all over again* ....
Written by psykometal on 29.12.2011 at 20:41 However if you think of "inspired" as wanting to revive OSDM and sounding like OSDM and it fulfills the task of "OSDM revival" as well as it sounds like they do then I'd say they are quite inspired from that perspective.
...Yeah, I meant that. Hopefully you'll dig the album, the first song is friggin sweet imo.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49 Rod, let me love you.
Nice review, You summed up this album perfectly. This is the way death metal should be played IMO very dark and "evil", All the songs are great with Track 5 being the highlight. Hopefully this band will go on and make even better albums. If I had not already heard this album you're review would have convinced me to give it a spin.
Good review, exactly as informative and descriptive as it needs to be. If I didn't already love the album, I'd check it out. I don't do death metal much, but Sonne Adam were by far my favorites this year.
I agree that the review was nearly spot-on. It's more original that given credit for, though. There is some original riffs and songwriting going on here that makes this band stand out from many others. This isn't by any means run-of-the-mill stuff. In fact, it's this band's originality in sound and atmosphere along with a ton of quality, unorthodox riffs that attracts me to this album.
The great thing is that we should get more and more from them as the years pass. A very cool album and a band worth following - even for a death metal or brutal death metal enthusiast like me. This has more of a doom/death vibe to it and it's a cool diversion from what I normally listen to.
I agree that the review was nearly spot-on. It's more original that given credit for, though. There is some original riffs and songwriting going on here that makes this band stand out from many others. This isn't by any means run-of-the-mill stuff. In fact, it's this band's originality in sound and atmosphere along with a ton of quality, unorthodox riffs that attracts me to this album.
The great thing is that we should get more and more from them as the years pass. A very cool album and a band worth following - even for a death metal or brutal death metal enthusiast like me. This has more of a doom/death vibe to it and it's a cool diversion from what I normally listen to.
I understand your points but I just don't think that any band from a revivalist wave deserves more than a 6 in originality no matter how good they are... They are certainly NOT ripping off stuff, that's a completely different story (which is why I gave them a high score on songwritting).
The 6 is just representing the fact that after all things have been said: This is still an album of the revivalist kind of band, stuff that has been done by the bands mentioned (With the biggest example being Paradise Lost's debut). Is that bad? Of course not. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that because you can clearly see that Sonne Adam doesn't try to outdo anyone, just doing what they want and being damn good at it.
The only thing that really matters is the overall opinion which is of a really strong album. I don't really care for numbers but if I have to explain a bit more then I should say that those four scores on the bottom of the review are always as objective as possible, trying too look at facts no matter how much I like it (or dislike it). It's the overall score I give the biggest weight.
I definitely look forward for more albums by this band.
Thank you all guys for the comments btw
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49 Rod, let me love you.
I still fail to see what's special about this or any other revivalist death metal band to be honest. I understand the love and appreciation for the bands that pioneered the sound, but for some reason I just can't find anything worthwhile in these kinds of bands. Death, thrash, doesn't matter. Good review though - it justifies the score you gave it and describes the album well.
PS guest review?
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I still fail to see what's special about this or any other revivalist death metal band to be honest. I understand the love and appreciation for the bands that pioneered the sound, but for some reason I just can't find anything worthwhile in these kinds of bands. Death, thrash, doesn't matter. Good review though - it justifies the score you gave it and describes the album well.
IMO the old school death metal revival bands are way more interesting then the thrash revivalist bands. But with both movements their is not much originality. That is no problem for me TBH because I really dont care about originality as long as the music is good.
To me this band simply plays great old school death metal. I can understand why you you dont find it anything special at all mind and I agree fully when you say that the bands and records who inspired them are superior.
But with both movements their is not much originality. That is no problem for me TBH because I really dont care about originality as long as the music is good.
To me this band simply plays great old school death metal. I can understand why you you dont find it anything special at all mind and I agree fully when you say that the bands and records who inspired them are superior.
Totally agreed. I'd rather listen to something totally unoriginal but good than something totally original and bad. Better well stolen than badly thought up.
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But with both movements their is not much originality. That is no problem for me TBH because I really dont care about originality as long as the music is good.
To me this band simply plays great old school death metal. I can understand why you you dont find it anything special at all mind and I agree fully when you say that the bands and records who inspired them are superior.
Totally agreed. I'd rather listen to something totally unoriginal but good than something totally original and bad. Better well stolen than badly thought up.
Exactly, Originality is a nice bonus and all but its the last thing going through my mind when I hear some well written music.
Im going to see this band later. i hope to be carried out in a stretcher! great band.
Nice!!! Late me know how they are live. This kind of death metal should sound monstrous live.
Yeah, it was fucking brutal. I would definitely recommend them if they come around to your area. It was more an unofficial gig and it was at a bar, so it was really nice to be close to the stage and even talk to them, also they played a pretty long setlist so getting into the vibes and atmosphere was great.
And actually, I was thinking - I hope this encourages more old school dm bands to form here or even come from europe to play with.