Azazel "Way Of Suffering / Necroscope" CD

AZAZEL`s two legendary tapes finally re-released on CD. This is old-school Death / Doom Metal!!!

Tracks 1-8 - "Way of Suffering" (demo 1993).
Tracks 9-12 - "Necroscope" (demo 1992).

 Gee, but I've been fucking around with these reviews this time. And all because I didn't give a damn about these reissues. I mean - the reissues were cool, just the music... But let's get to the point. Azazel is a band from Będzin that was active in the early nineties. We don't even know how long they existed, because they didn't even release the second album reviewed today while they were alive, and they recorded it in 1994. But let's start from the beginning. The album "Way of Suffering / Necroscope" contains tracks from these two demos, released in 1993 and 1992 respectively. Why the other way around? I don't know, that's how Leszek put them on this CD, and personally - and I've emphasized this more than once - it annoys me to put materials in reverse chronology on one album. Musically, Azazel focused on doom/death metal, which was quite popular during their activity. But you know, since it was popular, there were definitely those who performed it better and those who fell a bit short. Unfortunately, Azazel falls into the latter group, in my opinion. The music of this group was/is boring to me. Simply put. I know that the guys probably wanted to create atmosphere and weight, but Azazel's work since I met them a few months ago has come across as proverbial tripe and oil. Very slow, slow and at most medium tempos are something I have no problem with, as long as it is played with spunk, balls or heart. Here I don't feel it. The compositions themselves also leave much to be desired, even considering when these materials were recorded. The keyboards, which were not avoided in the first half of the nineties, are kind of bland and could be completely omitted. The riffs are very clumsy and hackneyed, even remembering that these materials were created a quarter of a century ago. It's a bit different on "Promised Land", where the band goes more into death metal territory, as if they were looking primarily at Vader, but also at Krabathor. However, this music still leaves much to be desired and is average at best. Listening to "Promised Land" I get bored just as much as with the previous demos. That's probably all I have to say about this music. Of course, the reissues are nicely and carefully released, which doesn't change the fact that for some time now Thrashing Madness Productions has been releasing stuff that probably few people miss, material that is average at best. Has everything that's good in Polish music from the eighties and nineties already been reissued?

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