On disc: Thorium

 
- Ocean Of Blasphemy
 
- Claudia Ehrhardt -
 
 


 
- Unleashing The Demons
 
- Claudia Ehrhardt -
 
 


 
- Feral Creation
 
- Leif Lohne -
 
 

Feral Creation

(Mighty Music - 2008)



 
 

 

Technically high quality old school death metal - and the right feeling you already get through the great Seagrave cover - the Danish Thorium deliver on Feral Creation. Even if they deliver old school death metal they present it in a modern sound. Hyper fast parts and bolt double-bass drum attacks á la Bolt Thrower you get on Feral Creation and Gates Of Utumno while on tracks like Sigil Of Baphomet, Epidemic Skeleton and Cast From Hell they speed up like At The Gates at their best! The songs of the quintet from Copenhagen are simply structured and aren't as complex as releases of some other bands nowadays releases. As the whole album is on a high level it's almost impossible to name single tracks. It would be great, if Thorium would manage to stay in the focus and not drop out of the spot light again.

Anyway, with this album they get closer to the premier league. Listen to the album at once and the 40-minute long Feral Creation revives the death metal spirit of the early 90's. And so just push Play again - or use Repeat right away!
 
 










Leif Lohne
Translation: Claudia Ehrhardt


  
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Unleashing The Demons

(Diehard Music - 2002)



 
 

 

The 2nd release of the Danish death metal quartet. The guys of Thorium are into old school death metal and this is more old school death metal than their debut Ocean Of Blasphemy which was released in 2000. They offer satanistic, blasphemic lyrics, don't care if they might get censored somewhere… This time the album was recorded at Exponent Studio in the Czech Republic. The album has a rougher sound which is not just related to the studio, it's also the different way of recor­ding... To quote Morton Ryberg: "It sound different, if you playing drunken. You can't play this when you are sober."

Another surprise is probably the cover of Cancer's classical track Cancer Fucking Cancer. Listen and get your own opinion about it!
 
 










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Ocean Of Blasphemy

(Diehard Music - 2000)



 
 

 

After a few spoken words the death metal starts and hits you hard. Ocean Of Blasphemy is an album in the tradition of the early 90's Florida death metal scene. Thorium was founded in late 1997 by members of Withering Surface, Taetre and Iniquity. All 10 songs are very aggressive and brutal, in the tradition of their influences, e.g.: Slayer, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Dissection and Possessed. Without the growls this band may be interested to fans of aggressive metal, too. Vocalist Michael H. Andersen confesses that it don't make sense to listen to the word, the lyrics are more or less senseless! The band decided to record at Greighallen Studio to get a raw and aggressive sound. Personally I like the guitar work, Jonas Lindblood, Morten Ryberg (guitar & bass) and Allan Tvedebrink (guitar & bass) pressent not the typical death / black metal riffing, they offerer different sounds. On Countless Ways To Die fast and slower, powerful parts shows that the quintet is breaking free from the limitation of the genre.
 
 










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