Genre: Death Metal
Label: Satanath Records
Fomat: CD
Our view : 85 %
A group of passionate lovers of extreme
metal, already well known on Serbian metal scene, gathered in 2013 to form a
new band. The mentioned band is consistent of former members of Belgrade’s
Death Metal machine Awaiting Fear, a doom band Rain Delay and Consecration. The
mentioned ones are Igor Lončar, Željko Zec, Milan Šuput, Marko Mrčarica and the
vocal named Tamerlan. This balck flame has started to be talked about even
before their first album came out. However, the time has come for these black
wings to take off and dash trough this scene, and the beginning of their
devastation has quite a clever name – “Welcome to…”
In cooperation with “Satanath Records”,
“Morbid Shrine productions” and “Darzamadicus Records” the Hell’s debut album
“Welcome to…” got into the infernal fight. At the first glance, before even
listening, it must be said that the design doesn’t leave such a brutal and
unique impression that we’re used to see in the death metal world, but in every
point it covers everything that The Hell offers us and it certainly corresponds
with the lyrical theme of this album. Front cover was done by Slobodan
Jovanović (“Art of Doom”), music was written by Igor Lončar and lyrics by
Tamerlan, except for the song “Amen” which was written and performed by Satan.
As the most Death Metal albums this one
also thrives with aggression, raw sound and fast guitar and drum parts. The
thing that makes this album stand out from most of Serbian Death Metal albums is
involvement of multiple singers in different songs which makes the whole thing
more interesting and dynamic. Thus, in the song “Bred for Slavery” the guest is
Danilo Dača Trbojević from the band Nadimač, who mastered his Death Metal vocal
skills back in the band Daggerspawn. The song “Spirityula Necrosis” hosts Atteringer(Triumphal/Gorgoroth),
and the song “The Human Harvest Fields” is enriched by the guest vocal Djole
(Azazel/Soul in Cage/War Ensemble).
The sound production was in charged by the
guitarist Igor Lončar, and we can say that it is at a high level, although we
hope that in the future it will get better. All in all, this is quite good
presentation of this Death Metal machinery. The influence of well known bands
like Deicide, Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, etc. is qute obvious, however The
Hell is considerably open with experimenting with modern sound. As we can see,
the name of the album itself (Welcome to…) implies that this band is not going
to stop at this, and that The Hell is yet to burn!
Song list:
1. Gates Into Reality (Intro)
2. Welcome To Our World
3. Bred For Slavery
4. High On Murder
5. The One Who Brings Redemption
6. Spiritual Necrosis
7. The Human Harvest Fields
8. Philosophy Of Vengeance
9. Genocidal Wrath
10. LeMarchand
11. Amen!