MIND-ASHES - Trend Cemetary
  
  

 

 
Label: Distortion Records

Release: January 2001

Von: Calani

Punkte: 6,5
 

  
Well... another someone ... has listened ... too often to Carcass. Directly the opener Paradise Beach ( wich you also can find on the Rock Hard Unerhört sampler Vol. 8 ) remainds me a lot of Heartwork. But now, I have to raise my finger immediately. Whoever expects a brutal masterpiece like Carcass is fairly wrong.
Nevertheless Trend Cemetary emerges as a very interesting album though. It offers a cool mix of Thrash- and Death Metal with Power Metal styled singings at the refrains and diverse influences in the song structures. Sounds strange now, but it is fitting well anyway. The more so that the growls of singer Tobias Geisel sounds completely in a different way than his clean sung parts in the refrains. The album is well-varied, speedy crushing tracks that alternate with the more quiet songs and you will find always again typical Carcass riffs ... which it is not soooo bad *lol *. The production doesn't have to hide also. The whole thing sounds powerful and comes over well.
Certainly, there something to do better. MIND-ASHES can't keep an uniformal high level through all tracks. The one or the other track has it's weak point. Also that cover leaves much to be desired. But, what it is not now, can come true ...
Stupidly, the singer and one of the guitarists Markus Bieker called it quits again, which will set the band back alot again. It is a pity!
MIND-ASHES come from Marburg and delivered with Trend Cemetary their second album now. For those who would like to risk an ear, Mind-Ashes' distribution Distortion Records offers two songs as shareware mp3 on their websites http://www.distortion-records.com.

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