The Eternal Suffering - Miasma

  Disharmony and extremity. This is what these Greeks, “The Eternal Suffering”, are all about. Having been around since the early 00’s, experience combined with inspiration runs this album in whole. Miasma, is their last release up to date, and is promising, indeed. The album was released through “I for an I records & Media”.TES is a Black/Death band; the “black metal” characteristics shoulder quite more weight than the “death” ones. So, TES is a (modern/ fresh ) black metal outfit, with dense death metal references/ dimensions. The album starts off with an intro, and then Murder the Dawn blasts off. This epic opus, is brutal, melodic, extreme, yet occasionally calm. This is pretty much the whole album’s atmosphere. Miasma is a complete release : unending riffing, and more precisely unending alternate picking, actual “songwriting”, acoustic passages (e.g. In Silence they March ), even melodic soloing at most compositions. In general terms, Miasma is a product of professionalism, in terms of technique, performance, and production. The sound is transparent, all instruments are distinguishable from one another : one gets the feeling that this tight music playing can only be one man’s breed.On guitars, “Ypsailon”’s choices are almost flawless; soloing only when necessary, his heavy tone serves his purpose : he makes extreme music sound diverse. On both vocals and bass, “Aphelian” stands firm. Concerning his vocals, he sounds quite influenced by the mighty Dimmu Borgir’s Shagrath ( The Burning Path’s vocals is an illustrative reference). His vocal lines are mostly sheer. Regarding his bass performance, one thing is sure : he cannot be compromised with merely supplementing the main tune; his “metallic” tone is certainly and continuously distinct, thus, TES exploit an instrument which is quite “misunderstood” when it comes to extremity. On the drumming, “Assyrion”’s beast-like performance is one of a kind. He is heavy, he is fast. Yet, he is groovy, with his rhythmic patterns actually forming the band’s sound, leading its expression.Conclusively, Miasma is a professional release, and no lack of inspiration can be spotted. Although Greeks, they sound Swedish, just to confirm an old, common saying : “Greece has nothing to be jealous of”, in terms of composing/performing music, that is. Disharmonic brutality, blended with outbreaks of melody = TES.

8.5/10  Stelios(Ω)