Helevorn – Spectres
Helevorn – Espectres
Meuse Music Records
Release Date: 13/09/2024
Running Time: 48:00
Review by Metalphysicist
9/10
Musical style’s catalogues are a good and verified option for organising any kind of semantics and syntactic camps. For instance, when I started to listen to Helevorn’s new album, “Espectres”, my brain was able to understand that Helevorn performs mainly Doom Sludge Metal songs, just like many other bands which also chose the same kind of musical genre during the composing process, as well. Fine. That is how musical styles are created and recognizable for our brains thanks to the repetition of the same musical patterns from a couple of bands with the same musical proposal, taken from the above-mentioned catalogues of musical style options.
And the fun fact is that, previously writing this review, I was checking Earth’s 1990 album named “A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extraction”, that is in my opinion the Sludge Philosopher’s Stone. And, suddenly, I pressed play on Helevorn’s new album which follows the same patterns of Earth, except for the fact that Earth is invincible on that fucking dense and slow compass musical style. There are definitely some Carcass contributions here, especially the songs from Carcass’ albums titles such as “Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious” (1991).
Now that you have already realised how our brain works when stimulated by music, it is possible to recognise elements of Epic Melodic Death Metal on some song’s passages of “Spectres” too, that allow the musicians to show their talented instrumental techniques. ‘Signals’, in my opinion, is the song that best defines Helevorn’s own fingerprint, by taking Melodic Death Metal, highlighting the impressive guitar solo which bring beautiful soundscapes to the song, and planting it right in the middle of the Doom Metal preponderant on “Espectres”.
The production of “Espectres” is by Miquel Àngel Riutort ‘Mega’ hands, who shows his ability mixing and contributing to the musical approach here. The vocal lines deserve to be mentioned, too. Floating between gore singing versus clean/ethereal atmosphere, time to time. And I dare to say that ‘When Nothing Shudders’, reminded me of Metallica’s monster hit ‘The Unforgiven’, with that peculiar… James Hetfield singing… especially on mid tempo songs.
That was how I related to “Espectres” impressive musical proposal. The only ‘if’ is that some songs could bring more cohesive composition, as heard on ‘Unbreakable Silence’. But if you enjoy the vanguard sonority arising from Doom Metal patterns, just go for it.
TRACKLISTING:
01. Inherit the Stars
02. The Defiant Dog
03. Signals
04. When Nothing Shudders
05. Unbreakable Silence
06. L’Endemá
07. The Lost Futures
08. Children of The Sunrise
LINE – UP:
Josep Brunet (vocals),
Sandro Vizcaíno (guitar),
Álex Correa (guitar),
J.M. Rubio (bajo),
Pedro S. Bonnín (piano, Keyboards de sesión)
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