Black Thrash Bastards (Demo)

Eternal Armageddon is a good band that is trying to make their way through the Black Metal underground, so first off, not everybody can review black metal because most don't like it and others don't quite understand it and give it poor reviews because of poor production quality, and this is just wrong. I personally love it, but I will be objective, but if not they screw me!

Ok so production is poor but true black metal should have a poor man's quality because it is about atmosphere and skill.

So with this said, production is very poor, it is as if a microphone was placed in the middle of the room and whatever was recorded was put on the CD. The only thing that is really heard is the guitar. The drums are heard but very low in the background and this acoustic tingle is present and resonates throughout some of the recordings. The sound is very low and very bassy (OK I know that is not a word). So there is like this ever present 220 and lower frequency throughout their recording.

So if you can get past the bad recording, and it is a bad recording but maybe that is what they were going for. However, I can't actually see anyone saying to the rest of the guys in the band, "Hey, I have a great idea, which will probably not get us noticed in the eyes of any A&R department. So lets create a poor quality CD that is almost disharmonious and crappy". And then the rest of the guys in the band say, "Hey, wow, that is a great idea!". Rather I think it is just that they could not afford good production.

So does the band have talent. Well, there is a lot of repetition throughout the guitar and drum rhythms. Actually on the Demo song "Black Thrash Bastards" you actually get to hear the bass guitar very clearly, not because all of a sudden the CD became audible and clear, no rather the rest of the band stopped playing and then I could decipher a bass in the background. However, overall not very interesting and nothing that stands out even in the black metal world. The guitar solos are rather immature and not very creative.

However, as a promotion or a demo of their initial work, I can see that these guys are trying, but after listening to their demo pack, I would not expect great things from them, because of their B sounding Black thrash riffs that are rather mundane, yet their follow up CD kicks some ass and actually surprised me to see that this was the same band. Their cover songs are pretty good, well that is as good and bad quality production gets, but if we look past the production issue then they did a decent job at covering another band's song. However, again the music is rather uninteresting. But the guys in the band are pretty good and holding chords and playing, which was good to see where they started off in consideration of their follow up CD which showcases a more aggressive side of their Black Metal strengths. So the question to ask is if I would recommend this CD? Well for the die hard Black Thrash Metal fan you might want to add this to your collection because if these guys become famous, then you can say you were a fan from their poor production days. But if you have to spend your money on this CD from a band from Bangladesh and a Manhattan hot dog from vendor from Bangladesh, I would rather give my dollar to the hot dog vender cause this way I get something out of the dollar. Although, you could use the CD for target practice, or pretend your a Ninja and chuck it off a bridge. This CD is really a 1 out of 5 guitar picks, and I love Black Metal but this is just not it. Actually, save your money and consider their follow up CD, and a $1 hot dog when you are in Manhattan

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