### Sarsekim: Fathom the spheres

#### 19/10/09 || Trauma

An album like this is maybe best experienced by going back in time. Let’s say… maybe 1993? Hold on, I’ve got just the fucken thing to take me back in time.

Just gimme a sec here to load my time-matrix differential calculations into my modified toaster-oven with monochrome monitor. Now, plop this thing here into my also-modded Ford Pinto containing a uranium and nickel-plated cadmium biofuel converter and we’ve got the recipe for the early 90’s metal scene. Fucken success!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Holy shit, the gizmos are whirring! I deserve a goddamn Nobel Prize in engineering motherfuckas. Ooohhhh shittttaaaaahhhhhHH!!!!!!!

1993

Awww, what the fuck. I’m eight years old again! But I’m still conscious of my future life, how weird. Man, eight years old and driving a Pinto, I must fucken be in Alabama, hahaha. How the fuck am I going to get a grasp on the sound of this album when all I want to listen to is Sesame Street singalongs and Elton John? Not just that, who’s going to take me seriously as an 8-year old in an oversized The Project Hate MCMXCIX t-shirt with some future metal album disguised as “brand-new 1993”? Well, here’s some grungy looking fucks with long hair, let me find out.

“Hey, you three unhappy looking dudes!”

“Whoa, what the fuck? Aren’t you too young to be driving, little mate?”

“No, and not too young to have knocked your mothers up last night. Quit fucken asking the obvious and listen to this shit. Please tell me you like metal or you are the worst examples of hippies I’ve ever seen.”

“Shit, that sounds pretty good! Who is it? You know, we’re thinking of starting up a band soon, ourselves.”

“No one, really. And you didn’t hear it from me, I must be going now so kindly fuck off and do not look in this direction.”

“Damn, mate. You’re a little shit-head, you’re never going to have any friends later in life.”

Jesus fucken christ, way to point out the obvious yet again. Time to put back in my new calculations for home, since this obviously wasn’t what I was hoping for… Wait, I need to check on more thing before I head out. FUCK! My penis really hasn’t grown all that much…

2009

Well, that was loads of unsuccessful. I land in Australia, of all places. At any rate, if they think it sounds okay back then, I guess it’s alright now. Which gets me to finish this abomination up:

This music isn’t bad and it’s got some nice leads occasionally and a little melody every now and then (but melodic metal it is not). Serviceable vocals, guitars that could sound tighter in most cases, good drumming with at-times weird sound (toms at the end of “The consummate destroyer”, for example), and overall songwriting that in the end leaves a bit to be desired. Songs like “The consummate destroyer”, “Noxious”, and “The transition” are good tunes in their own right and worth checking out, but the album as a whole does not meet the same standard. Not bad for a debut and it certainly does give me the vibe some of the earlier death metal albums gave, but not so overtly that I get confused at who this band is supposed to be. They are Sarsekim and they ain’t too shabby. Not quite excellent, but if you had played the above songs to me only there’s a chance of confusing them as being close.

- Information
- Released: 2009
- Label: self-released
- Website: www.sarsekim.com
- Band
- David Williams: vocals
- Aaron Tuck: guitar
- Darren McLennan: guitar
- John Dewar: bass
- Alan Cadman: drums

- Tracklist
- 1. The consummate destroyer
- 2. Continuing the torment of confinement
- 3. Diving the vital source
- 4. Fragments of the unknown
- 5. The transition
- 6. Sequestration
- 7. Noxious
- 8. The tangible being