Epitaph (Necrophagist album)
Occupation
- Muhammed Suicmez: vocals, guitar
- Christian Muenzner: Guitar
- Stefan Fimmers: Bass
- Hannes Grossmann: Drums
Epitaph is the second album of technical death metal band Necrophagist, which appeared in 2004.
History
Epitaph was not installed as opposed to the previous album Onset of Putrefication alone Muhammed Suicmez. The band was the first time demonstrate a solid cast, although still almost exclusively came all the songs from his pen. Christian Münzner sat phone with Suicmez in contact, which, inspired by his skills took him into the group. Three months before the recordings were still missing a matching bass player and drummer. Münzner remembers a friend named Hannes Grossmann, whom he had met at a concert. Grossmann, who had long taken drum lessons in the jazz field and was similar Suicmez strongly interested in music theory, was incorporated as a drummer in the band. It could be used to play the drums for the songs within two months. The shooting began without a bassist. Grossmann recalled again to a colleague, Stefan Fimmers who filled the place of the bass player. Suicmez got his ideas for songs here from some unusual sources. So he looked at the design drawing for a V6 crankshaft with 72 ° crank angle and discovered that the ignition times follow an interesting rhythm for him. This created a new drum pattern, for which he built up a song. Before the shooting, the members had never rehearsed together, but each isolated itself rehearsed his part. The recordings took place in various studios. Muhammed Suicmez took his part in The Depth of Torment in Baden -Baden. Bassist Stefan Fimmers took his part in Aexxys art on Schwandorf. The recordings of drums and singing part found under the baton of Christoph Brandes at The Iguana Studios in March instead. The album was mixed at the same studio of Christoph Brandes and Muhammed Suicmez. The album was mastered by Bob Katz at Digital Domain in Orlando, Florida.
Reception
Moritz Krueger indicates in his review that the band had even increased to their previous album, which he also considered positive. The songs are catchy, but the full potential of disclosing only after repeated listen. He emphasizes especially the high technical level of play the instruments and describes it as "brilliant" and " virtuoso ". He forgives the full score of ten possible points. Norman of metal.de describes the album as a " milestone in terms of death metal ", it called a " masterpiece" and stands next to the high technical level of play and the lyrics out: Suicmez as " the highest level of songwriting qualities " in which texts describing Norman as " apt ". There have been awarded nine out of ten possible points. Michael Edele of laut.de stated that it was amazing that we are dealing with a German band, since behind the music rather an American band would suspect. He describes the songs as well as technically very challenging and draws parallels to bands like Morbid Angel, Cynic and Krisiun. Edele expressed consistently positive for the album, only the playing time of around 30 minutes, he criticized as " just ". He forgave four of five points in the standings, the reader album reached the perfect score.
Title list
Style
Characteristic of the music of the album is the use of some foreign genre works. The play of the guitar at the end of Only Ash Remains is a cover version by Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev's song Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet. The song Stillborn One contains an excerpt from Ludwig van Beethoven's Für Elise. The game of the bass is compared with that of Steve DiGiorgio. The songs are almost exclusively played fast, the guitar solos are particularly fast.