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Death metal is such a limitless genre. You can do whatever you'd like. It can be over the top technical or slow. Brutal or insane and it's all so good. When we made "Visions of Death" it just came out with a natural old school-ish vibe and that's great, but our newer material has a much more modern technical vibe. I love how death metal has evolved.
For me, death metal should be heavy as fuck, brutal (which doesn't necessarily mean "fast"), atmospheric and evil. If the "evil" thing is not there, you can't label yourself death metal, that's a fact. I'm so fucking close minded when it comes to metal music... I listen to the SAME hard rock, heavy, thrash, doom, death and black metal that I used to listen to 15 years ago.
This Rome, Italy-based band started as Internal Bleeding in 1992, and did a demo under that name in 1993. Changing their name into Carnal Rapture because of their Long Island, New York namesakes they released a 4-track demo in 1994 and a 2-track promo in 2004. Carnal Rapture carries on the tradition of Atheist, Cynic, (later) Death, "Testimony Of the Ancients" and "Spheres" era Pestilence or more recent bands such as Necrophagist, Pavor and Obscura. Contrary to those latter two Carnal Rapture refrain from using any blastbeats and their highly rhythmic assault becomes more powerful because of that. The bass guitar is very audible and delivers exotic lines in the tradition of Tony Choy, Éric Langlois, Steve DiGiorgio, Chris Richards and the likes. The skillful guitar solos/leads, constant tempo changes, jazzy interludes and progressive segments are fantastic and add much character to an already impressive traditional technical death metal framework. The production by House Of Amon, the home studio of vocalist/guitarist Emilio Trilló, reminds of the earlier Morrisound produced genre classics. Together with Spain's Unreal Overflows, Carnal Rapture is probably one of the more promising technical death metal outfits working the underground today.http://www.myspace.com/carnalrapture comment itWouter 8
