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Brilliant Coldness: Poisoned reality
09/12/10 || Daemonomania
Yet another disc courtesy of IG’s big box ov gay promos. I totally would have lost the Guess the Genre game on this one. What appears to be a hastily drawn diseased vag/floating turd/fetus, with a brilliant band name like Brilliant Coldness and a logo that looks even worse than the turd. Black metal was indeed the prime suspect. But hark! Lo! Alas! Lord K is upon me! Turns out we’ve got some death metal in the vein of Cannibal Corpse circa “The bleeding” with a bit more technicality chucked in. Maybe even a hint of the mighty Monstrosity on the later tracks.
Something about these Ukrainians is immediately likable, even though we’re dealing with strictly third tier material. Everyone in the band puts in genuine effort, and the resulting meaty DM dish shows it. But there are weak links within ze chain of coldness. To fix items include:
- Low growls, and attempts at raspy add to the meh. Mor-door, keep that bass thwacking away, it adds a lot to the music and the tone totally rules. Just let someone else handle most of the vox.
- Drumming. Need more fills.
- More interesting riffs please, instead of reverting to CC’ing and chugging when the going gets tough.
- On the subject of guitars – whoever is playing three solos per song – QUIT IT. You ain’t Malmsteemengine. It makes what should be a 4 minute song turn into a 7 minute epic whammyfest, and the backing riffs just don’t support that kind of length. Victory will be yours if you simply condense, my sons.
Now let’s spend a paragraph doing one of my favorite things – making fun of song titles and the band in general! “Return to unbeing” would have been fine, the extra ness was coldness unnecessaryness my friends. And imagine if E. B. White’s classic children’s story had been entitled “Charlotte’s cobweb of self-destruction”. Result: awesome. Best song on the album, by the way, and worth checking out. Wish I had the lyrics to “Cannibal rules” as well…
MOR: Who wants to play baseball?
ANGEL: I will, but only if we follow CANNIBAL RULES.
SILVER: What are cannibaAUUUUGHGHGHGHGHGH!
Also, according to Metal Archives their songs were about blasphemy and cruelty before 2003, then switched their focus to truth and knowledge. Whew, optimist metalheads worldwide are surely breathing a sigh of relief.
Summarizing, Brillianto is a band with a good idea of what they’re going for, but they’re not quite there. If they tighten things up too much they might sound like a Corpse clone. If they continue indulging the endless solo parade they will become unlistenable. So advice fails me. It appears they’ve made some personnel changes though. A good start. Best of luck in future endeavors, you non-kvlt Ukes. There’s a great album hidden in your cobweb of unbeingness waiting to be free.
Oh, and send me an email. I’ll draw you a brand new logo. Can’t help you with the album cover, unfortunately, but just about anything would be better than the fudgina on display.
- Information
- Released: 2006
- Label: Eternity Records
- Website: Brilliant Coldness MySpace
- Band
- Mor: vocals, bass
- Alex Brilliant: guitars
- Angel: guitars
- Silver: drums
- Tracklist
- 01. Kingdom of The Dead
- 02. Post-Mortem Reality
- 03. Lords of The World
- 04. Return To Unbeingness
- 05. In Power of Horror
- 06. Cobweb of Self-Destruction
- 07. Program Annihilated
- 08. Paradox of Madness
- 09. Cannibal Rules
