Published: Absolute Underground Issue #48 October/November 2012
Spain's Darkness by Oath has a new album coming out at the end of August. It starts with the usual sort of mellow intro before the death metal starts. The second track didn't really impress me much. It just seemed kind of mediocre and that I've heard this song a lot before. Track 3 "Violent Intentions" started the same way but had kind of a cool ending. I think it's takes until the fifth song "A cry of terror" before this album starts to get it's groove. It has a good thrashy feel to it and some decent tempo. Followed by an upbeat "hollowworld" that gets your head moving. The rest of the songs are decent with a little experimentation. A little bit of classical guitar, and a bit of spanish influence used sparingly. During the last song it souns like their guest vocalist suddenly showed up for like a minute.
There's nothing ground-breaking on this album but these guys are solid musicians. They know death metal and play all the elements of it. I think they might just need some inspiration or maybe just need to be a band for longer. The second half of this album is the stuff you don't mind hearing when your Ipod is on shuffle. The first couple of songs are nothing special though, I think these guys could end up making some good music in the future. This ablbum strikes me as something that would get a 5/10.
Michael F. Carnage
http://www.darknessbyoath.com/
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