Friday, March 11, 2016

LIVE BURIAL - Live Burial (2014)

Burial Feast upon Tyne Shore


Even if my let’s say real archeological impressions refer to the Mexican land only, this time, thanks to Till You Fukkin Bleed travel agency, I removed to Newcastle upon Tyne, England. There, the English ground gave birth to the Live Burial crew and after reading few promising reviews about the music, I decided to give them a chance. And well, all the opinions weren’t pack of lies luckily. Namely, the band which is complete negation of nowadays, lives in the times of glory that reigned the scene twenty-five, thirty years ago. They are just another delegate of rolling avalanche which torments the soil with old-school deathly sounds. It means that Englishmen don’t provide any new modern sounds. Personally I don’t give a shit about it, as long as the music is performed in such a killing way. Without artificiality, without bizarre effects.

Yeah, exactly, this stuff is the ancient death metal played the way it should be executed. As for production side, the band with Dave Curle as a sound engineer endowed us a trip in time machine. And this is an unquestionable advantage reminding me of all those tapes I have been listening to, with flushed crimson face and wide open mouth, trying to learn something about Napier’s logarithms or fertilization and embryogenesis of the Angiospermae many, many years ago. And believe me, there is no boring time while consociating the sounds, though Live Burial deliver some doom parts as well, with mournful gloomy melodies (especially in the title longest song), the cohesion between fast expressive parts and those mentioned slow-downs has been maintained. It resulted rather long compositions where I can easily fish out quite good lead guitar parts, crushing bass processions being really strong element of the puzzle or agonizing screams of Jamie. The whole has been cemented by slimy raw riffs providing a complete devastation of my senses. And one more thing concerning the atmosphere spreading over the music: it’s just an added value, filthy, gloomy, sepulchral, of a tomb. I can confirm: the grave dimension has been unlocked.

On purpose I didn’t give any names of bands Live Burial took the influences from. This quintet offer fights bravely under the banner of the old school death. And to put it briefly these four killing tracks is a really promising thing coming straight out from Newcastle, contrary to football players residing at St. James’ Park. The releasing date of “Forced Back to Life” has been announced already, so I wait patiently hoping it will be a sledge blow. But now, I invite everyone to purchase this rotten item directly from TYFB before it’s too late. Not a cheap imitation of the gone past, just pure scything weaponry.    

82/100
-Tlacaxipehualiztli 
(written in March, 2016)

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