Band:	Vicious Art
Album:	Fire Falls And The Waiting Waters
Style:	Death metal, Thrash metal
Release date:	October 2004

01. Debria Seems To Be Bleeding
02. Komodo Lights
03. Fire Falls
04. A Whistle And His Gun
05. Ceremony, The Waiting Waters
06. Mother Dying
07. The Poet Must Die
08. Cut This Heathen Free
09. War
10. Why Would The Capture Set Free The Flies?

It's kind of impressive how a bunch of ex-members can get together and record a really tight and perfectly brutal Death Metal album.
How strange it might sounds, That is the case with Vicious Art, because here you'll find Matti Mäkelä on guitars & Robert Lundin on drums (both ex-Dark Funeral), Jörgen Sandström on bass (ex-Grave, ex-Entombed), Jocke Widfelt on vocals (ex-Dominion Caligula, ex-Obscurity Sthlm) and Tobbe Sillman on guitars (ex-Guidance of Sin, ex-The Dead).

A big bunch of ex-members, that now releases their first album together, under the same Vicious Art. And as you can guess, after reading what bands the members used to play in, this album is a bloody heavy one.
And similarities with bands like Cannibal Corpse and alike is drawn, but I personally think Vicious Art is way more Melodic than the Gore/Death Metal Americans.

But don't worry, you won't get any of the usual Swedish Gothenburg Death Metal, this is the more primitive kind, and you'll also even get some blastbeats from Lundin.
It's mainly the tight guitars that make me like this album, because usually I don't mind these releases, but this one is different.

Except the guitars, I have to point out Jocke's voice, it's not groundbreaking, but I have to say that it fits perfectly with the music Vicious Art plays.
The only thing I have against it have to be that usual when it comes to more brutal Metal, it's so monotonous, after listening to half the album, I'll get the feeling that I heard it all before.

But for big fans of this particular music I recommend this, you'll here get a brand new Death Metal act, with a lot of ex-members from larger bands. The heaviness and rawness is present, but you'll still get a quite melodic album, all in one package.

Check Out: "Fire Falls", "The Poet Must Die" & "Ceremony, the Waiting Waters".