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Apocryfal: Ravens

09/03/12  ||  gk

Apocryfal is a new death metal band from Finland and Ravens is the bands first 3 song demo released in January this year. It feels like I’ve been listening to a lot of death metal demos lately and these guys are pretty good. The songs here tend to have a bit of groove to them and its not all mindless blasting often taking a break from ultra fast brutality to short mid paced segments that work well. It helps that the band has a pretty good drummer who can blast and lay down a solid groove as well. The music is pretty standard and owes more to the Floridan death metal scene than the bands Finnish roots and the vocalist is a bit too gurgly and loud in the mix for my liking but its 3 songs in just over 10 minutes so its decent, relentless fun. Too generic to really be recommended, but they can only get better with time.

6/10 with hope for the future

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