Beats: Akarusa Yami - Ouroboros Review
Initially conceived in 2009 by Guitarist TK, Akarusa Yami
began taking shape in September 2010 when Vocalist Tom Brumpton discussed with
him the idea of starting a new band. Both having spent several years playing in
other outfits such as Insidious, Cacodaemonic and Kallous; they combined their
love of progressive metal with the merciless grinds of industrial music to
create their debut EP “Ouroboros”.
Before I heard this album, I had only heard one of the
singles Life, The Venomous Way and I really enjoyed
how different it was to a lot of music in the progressive death metal genre so
I was quite excited about Ouroboros.
Ouroboros is
actually nothing like the single.
Ouroboros is
really something special.
Opening with brutally fast machine-gun drums, Millenium Is My Salvation quickly
continues into shredding guitars and death metal vocals like no other whilst
keeping in time with the constant speed of the drums then about half way
through the song, the death metal vocals disappear into some kind of hauntingly
atmospheric doom vocals before continuing with the original death metal but
faster.
The Fallout comes
next which is a lot more guitar forward and the vocals are more shouty and
hardcore than the previous track. There is certainly some mad shredding along
with the same machine-gun style drums. My only disappointment with The Fallout is that there are none of
the doomy vocals that completed Millenium
Is My Salvation.
Next up is Comfort In
Amputation which has more of an old school death metal feel musically and
again, shouty hardcore vocals with an old-school death metal tinge as well as
my favourite, the familiar doomy vocals return! The song continues, switching
between death metal and doom vocals with a riff like no other. Definitely my
favourite track on the EP.
The EP breaks up a bit with a beautiful acoustic
instrumental, Change Reflects. The
guitar-work is quite Spanish in style and surprisingly works really well with
the rest of the EP.
Third Eye, Wide Open
is a track which makes me think “What if
the opening two tracks merged? Is this what it would be like?” and the
conclusion I’ve come to is yes. Yes it is.
The EP finishes on Day
(1), yet another enjoyable track but musically, it seems slower than the
rest of the E.P. The vocals are faster and it works but I don’t quite
understand it. It’s a great way to finish.
I am really enjoying this EP, particularly the vocals but I
do have one rather major issue – I feel that a lot of the time you can’t hear
the other instruments behind the rather loud drums which is really quite sad
because when you can hear the guitars, bass and keyboard too, it all comes
together beautifully.
All in all, they’ve done a cracking job and I really cannot
wait for the follow-up to Ouroboros
which is due for release later this year.
Ouroboros is out
now as a digital download and you can purchase it from your usual digital
bringers of fine music.
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