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CRIMSON FALLS - Fragments Of Awareness; CRIMSON FALLS - Fragments Of Awareness
Topic Started: Jul 14 2011, 09:52 AM (294 Views)
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CRIMSON FALLS
Fragments Of Awareness

Rising 2011

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Garn, but it's been a grim week for music so far. There hasn't been anything to engender even the slightest soft shoe shuffle of delight. I've decided to blame all the skinny white boys in indie bands for this (just for a change), so today sees me heading off into the world of the metal. And not just any old metal. Nope, it's Belgian death metal / grindcore crossover or nothing! That's right - Belgian death metal / grindcore crossover. Take that, scenesters!

Crimson Falls are the band, and this is actually a reissue (or British release, if you prefer), of an album that came out in 2009 over in the land of chips, on Genet Records. I haven't checked, but I'm sure it took the Walloons and the Flemish by storm, converting a nation without a language of their own into frenetic neck breaking metallers. Or something of that ilk. It would appear that this is the third album from the Dutch speaking deathsters from Dessel, and they've certainly got the brutality down pat.

There is the odd bit of Swedish death metal influence, hither and thither, but it's mainly straight doon the middle grindcore, with death metal sounding vocals, some truly vicious guitars. The band sound as tight as a, um. very tight thing, which is no wonder considering they were total road dogs last year, clocking up over two hundred shows, playing alongside the likes of The Black Dahlia Murder, Volbeat and Trigger The Bloodshed. If you're looking for an easy comparison, then I'd point you towards Lamb Of God and the aforementioned The Black Dahlia Murder, but songs like 'Omen Of Catastrophe' and 'The Suicide Circle' show them to be slaves to no-one.

It certainly did the trick for me, purging me of the dreck that came before it. Good work, fellas.

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Edited by zeitgeist, Jul 21 2011, 10:11 AM.
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