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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.
Naming themselves after a dark female force in the pantheon of the Order Of the Nine Angels French all-star duo Aosoth unleash a storm of orthodox black metal hatred. Consisting of vocalist Magus Kaiser Munkir (Antaeus, ex-Temple Of Baal) and multi-instrumentalist Sébastien Tuvi (here known as Bestial Satanic T; ex-Aborted, Genital Grinder) "Ashes Of Angels" is musically, as well as lyrically closely related to Antaeus. Going either for the storming approach ('Sungs Without Lungs' ,'Ashes Of Angels', 'Embrace and Enlightenment') or the hypnotizing black/doom direction ('Path Of Twisted Light') Aosoth do either direction with flair and finesse. The cover of Antaeus track 'Inner War' is neat touch blurring the lines between both bands even further. The vocals of MkM are probably the sickest and most deranged the genre has to offer. The production by Tuvi and his BST Studio closely resembles Antaeus' "Blood Libels" while MkM has graced this record with its artwork. The logo was created by genre stalwart Erik Danielsson (Watain). "Ashes Of Angels" will not go down in the history books as a vital classic, but it certainly is one of the better albums the French underground has created.comment itWouter 7
