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Wynjara: Human plague
11/11/04 || Lord K Philipson
Few are the bands who manage to sound all ok with a drum machine. I think I have to add Wynjara to that list now. These guys aren’t exactly taking the easy way out. First the use of a drummachine combined with some well-played death metal, secondly they think that an Aboriginal dialect is a great name for the band. Thirdly… Well, I don’t have a third point and neither do you.
Wynjara’s leader Mr. Soars ( who fucken knows if he’s the leader of the band, ask me if I care) once was a member of deathsters Malevolent Creation (probably a hundred other bands as well, I don’t know nor care). That should mean you have some insight as far as how death metal should sound like. And damn me, he does. Wynjara is a fine piece of heavy death metal (isn’t it automatically heavy if it’s death metal?) and they pull their shit off real fine. Sure, the drummachine kills a bit of the spirit but I can imagine this to be pretty damn killer were we to have a real mofo behind the kit, but as I mentioned in the beginning, the material is strong enough to survive even the most fucked up of machines (maybe not that strong, but something along those lines).
Here and there we get some neat twin-harmonies within the riffing along with some half-blasting programmings. The occasional solos are there and they are pulled off nicely. Some Slayer-inspiration (“I am” anyone?) is to be found (listen to “Walking dead” for further proof). Brooks Rose is having a decent pair of lungs as well which is not a bad thing at all when it comes to death metal. He’s not the Pavarotti of groels ( I have a feeling I have said that before about some other band) , but he’s not close to Chris Barnes-sucky either. “Laughing as they die” (how fucken rude!) gives me some Sweden death metal vibes, later era.
On the downside, some tracks on the album are not exactly doing much for me. “Rebirth” and “Transformations” are 2 of those. A few minutes of keyboards only is not exactly my idea of death metal. It didn’t work when Pestilence tried it and it doesn’t work now. “Aftermath” is a 6 minute instrumental guitar-jerkoff that steps away from the death metal path to calm things down a bit. I get it guys, you are better than me at playing solos. Good for you. There’s probably a bunch of other tracks too, I’ll leave that for you to dissect though, just becoz I’m nice like that (aka fucken lazy)
If my cock was on fire, would you put the fire out?
Wynjara’s done a good job with this effort and we can only hope they get hold of a decent drummer until the next recording coz their take on death metal is definitely a good one and a real drummer would improve the material.
By the way, this album’s strongest track is the mentioned “I am”. Fine, fine, fine sludgy death metal quality. Just in case you wondered what track to start with to see if this one’s for you.
7/10
- Information
- Released: 2004
- Label: Nocturnal Art Production
- Website: www.metalasylum.com/wynjara
- Band
- Brooks Rose: vocals
- Jason Morgan: guitars
- J.P.Soars: guitars
- Mike Moreno: bass
- Roland/Alesis/Boss: drums
- Tracklist
- 01. Meltdown
- 02. Laughing as They Die
- 03. Feast of Fools
- 04. Rebirth
- 05. Shallow
- 06. Disgrace
- 07. I Am
- 08. Little Man
- 09. Transformations
- 10. Walking Dead
- 11. Hypocrite
- 12. Aftermath
