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Demonaz: Promo 2007
27/06/08 || Global Domination
This review was written by ex-staffer/cocksmoker AMP.
Demonaz’s MySpace page has a few tracks up which it refers to as a demo for his upcoming album. I figured that made it fair game for this section of the site, so I went and took a listen…
… Power metal?
Haha, only kidding. This is Demonaz Doom Occulta, one half (admittedly the crippled half, but still) of the mighty Immortal duo. That’s the duo that wrote “Pure Holocaust”. A solo project under his name can only mean one thing – icy, epic and heavy, right? I mean, there’s no way he’s gonna turn to cheesy, synth-filled power metal, right? That’d be as unlikely as Celtic Frost going from “Morbid Tales” to a glam metal album… Right…? And even if he was going through a mid-life crisis which necessitated glossy lead-heavy power metal with atrociously silly lyrics about how great Demonaz is, then we could rest assured, because his backing band is drawn from the ranks of Abbath’s monoglyphic side-project, and “Between Two Worlds” was as raw and glacially imposing as Immortal themselves, albeit in a much more energetically heavy metal way. For those musicians to turn weak and impotent, for them to sound bored… Well, that’d be like Cryptopsy ditching their brutality and turning emo… Really unlikely, yeah?
And you’d think if I was writing a review and it got so spectacularly lost in its own sarcasm, rhetorical questions and melodramatic over-exaggeration that it seemed to be trailing off into oblivion, I’d stop, and perhaps elaborate a little more seriously and maturely on the subject, right? Wrong motherfucker. It’s fortunate that we live in the world of extreme metal, where no one ever goes insane or over the hill. It’s fortunate that people like Demonaz can still make music with passion and hatred glistening through. Because the last thing we need is more lousy power metal, and the very last thing we need is a big name behind it to assure that it gets signed regardless of how vapid and vacant of worth it may be. So it’s fortunate that didn’t happen, hmm?
And what if it did? What if Demonaz pranced so embarrassingly towards the shiny side that he started stealing phrases like “fire and flames” from bands like Dragonforce? Would the resulting powerturd be worth a damn? Of course not, but would there still be people out there to lap it up like retards? Very probably. Lets just hope that when Varg is released he goes ape shit and crucifies them in the name of Mighty Ravendark or something…
This review was brought to you courtesy of a totally well balanced mind free of any cynicism or irrationally misanthropic thoughts. Demonaz’s demo was brought to you courtesy of a feeble traitor to the black circle, and the phrase “Perfect Wiszhuns”.
Seriously though, it is really really bad.
- Information
- Released: 2007
- Website: Demonaz MySpace
- Band
- Demonaz: vocals, music, lyrics
- Abbath: bass, backing vocals
- Ice Dale: guitars
- Armagedda: drums
- Tracklist
- 01. Demonized
- 02. Over the Mountains
- 03. Under the Dying Sun
- 04. Perfect Visions