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Rise of Necropolis demo CD 2006
1: World Demise
2: Yedina
3: Nocturnal Conspiracy
4: Misanthropia
5: Death March
6: Pure Haunting Breed
7: Darkness Triumph
line-up:
Dennis Schoenmaker (guitars)
Thijs Mulders (keyboards)
Bram Koller (vocals, guitars)
Sarban Grimminck (drums)
Maurice Aalders (bass)
     
Review: With the plunge into financial success by
Dimmu Borgir, black metal has gained a lot of attention
from people that think that band represents the ultimate
goal of a whole genre. However good this band may be in
its musicianship (and even devoted to the dark side),
it's still a thoroughly marketed machine that pushes its
boundary only slightly every album to play safe - enough
to remain at the front of the commercial black metal
scene but also enough to not lose any of its fans. The
consequence of this is that bands imitating Dimmu Borgir
are obviously imitations (by sound, composition, and
'vibe' (yes, that's vague)), They always have a hard time
to define themselves as individual bands with ideas of
their own. Misanthropia is a good example of this (apart
from the doomy parts that are a bit Officium
Triste-like). They are good musicians (although the
guitar solo's are a bit of a nuisance at times), but it
feels they are going for the money shot instead of aiming
for musical enrichment. Perhaps this will filter out
after a few years of playing ball in someone else's
construct of a genre, but only time will tell... As
expected, the compositions are safe, the instruments are
well handled, the production is commercial but not as
rich as Dimmu Borgir's (they lack that kind of money, I
guess), there are obligatory hollow words like
"nocturnal" "misanthropia" and
"conspiracy" there, and there's enough to
please fans of that last band. I think it's okay, but
nothing more than that.
Source: NLBMe exclusive, January 2011.
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Slang des doods CD 2010 by Snakebite
Records
1: Satan's Colonists
2: Give Me Flesh
3: The Light Bringer
4: Slang des Doods
5: Angst
6: The Strangled One
7: Revenge of the Undead
8: Beyond
9: Tremolo Funeral
line-up:
Maurice Aalders (bass)
Sarban Grimminck (drums, acoustic guitars)
Dennis Schoenmaker (guitars)
Thijs Mulders (keyboards)
Bram Koller (vocals, guitars)
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