UNDIVINE – A Deceitful Calm
 
Label: Aural Offerings Records
Release: May 30 2008
By: Stormlord
Rating: 8/10
Time: 37:06
Style: Black/Death Metal
URL: Undivine
 

A few seconds of ingenious sprouting opening track My Silence are enough to light my fire of enthusiasm concerning UNDIVINE’s music!
These four guys let off steam in intersection of Black and Death Metal and unite elegant melody arcs, dark vocal intensity and hymnal elements to a deadly cocktail enwrapped in Nordic furiousness. Naglfar, Unanimated or Necrophobic can be named as indication for musical and atmospheric presentation.
It needs a few turns to get captured by UNDIVINE totally, because the one or other melody is hidden in very dense sound. Egregious lead guitars and dark vocals dominate …And The World Was War in which the band throttles speed adeptly. UNDIVINE do not act all too hectic and rely on their ability of composing, combining catchiness and partly hypnotic vocal lines with amazing guitar sprints. One highlight waits on fifth place entitled Cold Dead Heart, which could develop as band hymn in the future. Multilayer guitar towers and stomping drums will elate every Metal fan for sure. Surprising breaks and hardly noticeable changes in measure care for well dosed alternation, but do not destroy the dynamics of suspense. The borne beginning of following track A Vision Undivine is suited for a relaxed breather, but the calm before the storm does not last long! Intense vocal force and a meticulous elaborated song build-up create another song pearl. A Deceitful Calm is concluded by enormous bleak track Catholic creating a conjuring and sinister mood hardly to compare and describe.
UNDIVINE downright celebrate their eight musical legerdemains and deliver short 40 minutes of pure quality in very good sound vesture. They almost appear in divine manner like their similar straightened examples mentioned above and they definitely walk on the accurate path!