EMMOS Vol.1 & Vol.2 Reviews

EMMOS (Fr) – Vol.1 Emmos Kratos & Vol.2 The meaning of death
Demo CD 2009 – Self released
12 tracks - 53'04/ 7 tracks - 39'09
Rated: 3/10 - 5/10
So much material to review at a time, Jeff wants me dead!! This one man project with two CD is a gathering of Jeff's multiple musical tastes. EMMOS is a crossover of thrash/black and various raw metallic remnants. This lack of unity is the main problem with so much stuff compiled. I don't know where Jeff wants to go, probably he needs to create all this music in a cathartic goal but I must say I hardly get into his stuff. Musically and rhythmically speaking that's ok eventhough when he plays some leads or solos I can't prevent to grimace as it doesn't sound good to my ears. Vocally he also used a wide panel between black metal screams, clear vocals, crossover singing, more guttural ones, and once again it's sometimes a matter of tastes to bear them all. Think about some old SLAYER mixed with DARKTHRONE, VENOM, THE EXPLOITED and many hangovers. The use of drum machine isn't scandalous as it's back mixed so you don't really care about it while listening.
Vol. 2 follows the same path of multiple influences with a try in heavy metal voice. The thrash influence is stronger here (SLAYER « South... » and « Season... ») and one riff on « Fighting each other » seemed to be taken from « Silent scream ». To end on a positive note, I particularily enjoyed the last track, a long doom/thrash instrumental with clear-sounding guitars, not bad at all except some lead guitars that suck but that's demo stuff after all. I think it would have been better to keep the best track to release a single demo instead of all this stuff for the sake of releasing 19 tracks. Half of them could have been sufficient.
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