Maybe it’s me because I’m a late extreme metaller whose passion for Extreme Metal started late here with Metal Addicts. If you read my reviews here you must have noticed that I say I’m the one guy who likes Metal music from the most glammy Hard Rock to the most obscure Black Metal. No, I’m not kidding. I have an open mind and that means to accept Metal music how it is with all its pros and cons – and there are many of them. That’s why for some while a band may sound redundant, for me it sounds exciting just because it’s redundant. That’s exactly the beauty of Metal music; the most bands play loud and clear, the most it gets stronger and stronger. It doesn’t matter how original they are – of if they are – because they are original in their own terms. Truth is Black Metal has changed a lot since the 1980’s. Really a lot. So, for me, to some extent all bands are kind of original.
Ok, then, what Beyrevra with “Echoes: Vanished Lore of Fire,” their debut album have to deliver the fan is a plain modern Black Metal album with all the features the genre has to offer. And wanna know what? This is the reason the album is so cool. From head to toe my dear child of the night will realize what’s to come. That’s the best part of it. No change for change’s sake. I’ve had enough of that. Of course, when I say no changes at all, to some extent there are lots of them. “Echoes: Vanished Lore of Fire” delivers a hell – oops – of mood, tempo, and cadence changes as it’s common today. It’s astonishing how the band changes the pace in “Barren Tales.” The drumming speed has always astonished me. It’s also the blend of melody with fiery guitar riffings of grand finale “The Hermit’s Torment” that astonishes me with modern Black Metal. To some extent, to me, melody and mayhem couldn’t ever work together. But they do. Album warmers as “Sentenced,” with an out of the box vocals and a rock’n’roll guitar riffs in the middle of the carnage, really do a great deal of a difference. As I always say, album warmers tell how the album will go. Or, in this case, they tell what a band is made of. Beyrevra deliver hell. That’s the point.
I guess it’s possible to say “Echoes: Vanished Lore of Fire” won’t surprise my dear child of the night, but that’s not the point. It’s the good old plain modern Black Metal. That’s enough for me.
Beyrevra “Echoes: Vanished Lore of Fire” was released on February 29th via Trollzorn Records.
Tittle Tracking:
- Sentenced
- Path of Baptism
- Burning Fate
- New Aeon Rising
- Erased
- Fallen Son
- Beheading the Truth
- Barren Tales
- The Hermit’s Torment
Watch “Beheading the Truth” official music video here:
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