20
02
2010
THE CORRODING AGE OF WOUNDS CD 2009 (BlackTerrorMetal/ITA)
Posted by: KRATORNAS in Reviews
Si tratta di una produzione ultra-underground che mi è stata segnalata dall’artista stesso. Dubito fortemente che troverete sul mercato europeo questo CD, ma è giusto dare spazio a tutti. Kratornas è una one man band filippina. Sì, avete letto bene, filippina. Una prima volta per questa ‘zine, nonostante siano veramente tante le recensioni.
Earlier this year Kratornas returned with their second full length ‘The Corroding Age Of Wounds,’ to assault your ears once more with their destructive aggressive music. If you take some blackened death metal and carefully place in some trashy riffs you will get Kratornas. You get a nonstop barrage of balls to the wall dark aggressive black metal in the vein of impiety.
Die Philippinen gelten ja nicht gerade als Hochburg für schwarzmetallische Tonkunst. Dieser Tatsache ungeachtet frönt Bruno Zamora bereits seit 15 Jahren seiner Leidenschaft und veröffentlichte im vergangenen Jahr mit “The Corroding Age of Wounds” das zweite Album seines unbeirrten Ein-Mann-Projektes. Das krachige Gebolze erinnert teilweise an alte Schandtaten von Marduk, allerdings noch ein Stück höher auf der Temposkala. Die 8 Songs gleichen einem infernalischen Flächenbrand, an einigen Stellen züngeln die Flammen allerdings ein wenig kraftlos, vor allem dann, wenn das sägende Gitarrengeschredder vom ab und an etwas wirr programmierten Schlagzeuggeschwader zugedröhnt wird, wie im eigentlich ansonsten sehr geilen “Chaosblade”.
Kratornas mixes two of metal’s most extreme subgenres, Black & Grindcore, into one. Does that remind us of a certain band? Of course it does. That being said, Kratornas does it a little bit different than the notorious Anaal Nathrakh. Where Anaal Nathrakh sounded pitch-black in their early days and psychotic in their later days, Kratornas are ‘just extreme’.
Voorzien van een sierlijk hoesje (Kris Verwimp is verantwoordelijk) presenteert Bruno Zamora van Kratornas zijn tweede langspeler. De Filippijn heeft onderdak gevonden bij het Duitse Kneel Before the Master’s Throne Records en zodoende werd ook Zware Metalen bereikt door dit eenmansproject. Deel twee heet The Corroding Age of Wounds.
It took Kratornas some time to achieve some decent exposure. After a bunch of demos, things seemed to pick up some speed for Bruno. There was a split LP with Balberith and a debut and now it seems he’s gained enough momentum to be signed on one of Black Metal’s most respected label: Kneel Before The Master’s Throne.
Kratornas is a 1 man black metal band hailing from the Phillipines which I was describe as extreme fast war/black/grind/thrash and this is a review of their 2009 album “The Corriding Age Of Wounds”. Drums on this recording are really fast with alot of blast beats that make Immortal sound like a doom metal band in comparison and they also slow down at times when the music gets slower, to give the music an even edge.
I got notified about this review by the Covenant Zine staff. It’s all about a review on ‘The Corroding Age of Wounds’. This is written in Italian I think and if you ask me, I didn’t understand it of course. Translators just don’t work and I don’t mind reading from there - it’s a war of words using that system. So whether this is good or bad, I don’t know. Just to keep the blood flow…
