Black vinyl variant, limited to 81 copies
180gr LP, 3.5mm spine, printed on heavy cardstock and vinyl in black paper sleeve.
Repress of the letal album released in 1999.
Today hard to find everywhere, don't lose last chance to get a copy!
Raw Suicidal Black Metal with Suicide, Despair and Death Lyrics.
A manifestation that will drown you into the dark abyss!
Malvery, one of the rare black metal bands from Québec, released their first album 6 years after the band was formed.This album is great for a debut, it has some great guitar work and some very impressive vocals. This album was recorded when the vocalist was just about to commit suicide (he killed himself shortly after this album was recorded), so the vocals sound more like someone screaming at the top of his lungs, not your average black metal vocals; you can feel the anger in every song.
"As Drowning Came From Horizon", the album's kick-off track, has no guitars in it, only strings, which makes a very ambient track.. This piece is emotional (and no screaming yet), the vocalist is just talking/singing. The vocals sound a bit like a choir, but much more darker (and also out of one). The second song, "Drowned In A Dried-Up Lake" starts right off with an agressive guitar riff, with the vocalist screaming, struggling.It sounds like he's trying to fight his way out of misery by screaming. No lyrics yet, but shouts here and there. This song still feels like a preparation to the other songs on the album, (since the next song is 11:09).
The third song on the album, "Suicide, The Only Solution" (the highlight song of this album), is where the vocalist takes it all out. In the intro, he screams all he can. The rest of this song is very slow, (with a little doom metal feel), and it's probably the best song off the album. The last 3 songs on the album are amazing as well.
However, the guitar riffs were a bit too common in some places, "Suicide, The Only Solution" should have a few more riffs and more instrumental parts, that could focus on guitars or keyboards instead, for a change.Also, more clean vocals would've been really nice. The screaming gets old after a while.
Despise these few flaws, this is a great album that should be enjoyed by most black metal fans.
Sample:
Malvery - Mortal Entrenchment In Requiem (1999)
