DEATH — Symbolic (review)

DEATH — Symbolic album cover Album · 1995 · Technical Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
1967/ 1976
For the pleasure of listening to good music ... For the pleasure of dreaming! Thanks Chuck!

Death Metal is an extreme type of Heavy Metal with a mix between Speed Thrash Metal and Venom and Celtic Frost and similar bands of 80's with "growl" vocals. But for shure it has evolved into something unique, becoming, thanks to Death, Cynic, Pestilence, Atheist and a similar band in a genre that was not only extreme Metal. To give an example of what has come to try to imagine a Speed Thrash version of Atomic Rooster or Black Widow! You understand very well what I mean. And in fact this subgenre of Death Metal Progressive Death Metal comes called! This natural evolution has given birth to some of the finest Rock albums of all time in technique and magic, warmth and sincerity. It seems strange but I see more this kind of music as a descendant from the prog rock of the 70's that Neo Prog.

Musically "Symbolic" draws from Speed ​​Thrash Metal as much as from Progressive. Certainly it is an album that can not be dismissed merely as Progressive Death Metal because if that's true, "Symbolic" come to a lesser extent also Thechnical Thrash Metal, Power Metal, Symphonic Metal, Baroque music, Bach and Wagner. In an overview listening to "Symbolic" I see the same music that played Celtic Frost in the mid 80's but faster and technical! In any case, "Symbolic" sounds like an album that does not have a home in a specific genre, because as I said it becomes a pure example of Prog Metal and even of Prog Rock!

The production is crystal clear and difficult to improve. The mix is structured so that power and technique have the same weight in the pieces of "Symbolic" but, at the same time, the melodic parts become even more melodic (but without losing power!). Shouldiner is always at the highest levels but surprisingly, the drumming of Gene Hoglan, always powerful, precise, technical and fiery, played with ease and precision.

In conclusion I can say that "Symbolic" is an album truly immortal. It is the son of Shouldiner and mind, mind that, a few years later, will betray him. Even if you hate Death Metal... You can not hate "Symbolic"!
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