The Prophecy Vision
This band
is a big surprise in whole offering of American Line label full of death and
black outfits. The band coming from Pedro Escobedo, Mexico, is a representative
of pure heavy metal. Originally recorded in 2005, now the album is remastered
and with three bonus tracks taken from the previous demo. I don’t know what was
the reason to re-release this item, and I really don’t care, because the music
simply kicks my heavy metal ass. Of course Mexicans don’t serve completely new original
sounds and “La vision de los profetas” is maintained in the vein of Spanish
Tierra Santa (especially when it comes to the first albums). It’s not only my
observation, the band writes about Tierra Santa influences on their own pages
as well. But here I’d like to state that there is no chance of being named as
stupid rip-offs, the music is very solid supported by real and expressive heavy
metal riffs. In addition, very good sound helps with general perception of
tunes.
All right,
let’s leave intro (nothing special here), because the first song “Genesis”
attacks with quite decent riffs, when after calm (but not acoustic) beginning,
the proper guitar work enters the stage. This is the Mexican formula to play
good heavy metal: fast tempo, interesting work of guitars, memorable riffs and
no artificial melodies. What do I want more? Vocals of Ruben are sung in
Spanish (that’s good!), perfectly fit to the music, they are clear and audible,
but the difference with Angel (Tierra Santa) is noticeable. Ruben proposes
rather steady singing, and for sure it doesn’t bring monotony to the entirety. So,
the synopsis of the album is given. But it is worthy to mention about fourth
song called “El martir del Golgotha”, the longest one, with calmer opening
lasting almost one minute. The song tells the story about last moments of
Christ before crucifixion, after about fifth minute I can hear the sounds of
nailing to the cross and lamentations, then furious guitar lead tears
everything apart. I am really impressed. In turn in next “Ancestros” similarity
to mentioned Spanish band is very perceptible when it comes to melodic lines. But
the best track is “Llorar en el infierno”: absolutely killing riffs not only on
the start, the longest guitar lead on the album and vivid tempo changes. Simply
great!
To sum all
the things up, it is obvious this band is a tasty bit for all heavy metal
hunters. The unknown yet strong, hard music, without wimpy melodies and
maintained in rather fast, forward-moving tempo (maybe “Crucifixion” is
different a bit because of some balladic moments mixed with hard guitars).
Albatrhoz doesn’t play complicated nor broken music, with simple elements they
execute good metal spitting the next album into this rotten world. Many years
went by, so I think it will be cool to hear any new songs from this band. But
is it possible, guys?
80/100
-Tlacaxipehualiztli
(previously written for Encyclopaedia Metallum, on November, 2012, now modified a bit)
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