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"The Darkest Cloud" is the second demo recording by Finnish death metal act Endermic. The demo was independently released in 1994. Endermic formed in 1992 and released the 1993 "Syndromata Psychoorganica Ex Usu Medica Mentorum" demo and this demo before disbanding.
The material on "Syndromata Psychoorganica Ex Usu Medica Mentorum" was pretty much as amaturish as it gets when listening to early 90s death metal demos, and although "The Darkest Cloud" isn´t exactly a revelation either, the quality is slightly better here. The band however still aren´t particularly well playing and the lead guitar parts are still out of tune. The songwriting is still an odd combination of old school death metal and the occasional melancholic death-doom metal part, but Endermic are now closer to having the necessary skills and songwriting ideas to record a demo (which they weren´t on the first demo). When that is said "The Darkest Cloud" is still in the amaturish lo-fi end of the early 90s Finnish death metal demo spectrum. A 1.5 star (25%) rating is warranted.
