RITES OF ZYGADENA zine #1 - rating: 90/100 |
I’ve just got a copy of the last NOMAD’S album from their promoter. It is not so new album because almost two years has passed since it was recorded. Still it was my first contact with it. I never was a big fan of this band – I liked their stuff but never was really crazy about it.
But this time things are a little different. I’m just listening to this album fourth time and every time I listen to it I like it more and more, every time I listen to it I’m finding more little details that I had missed when I was listening to it before. Maybe this album is a little less demonic and less devilish than three older ones but it is still mostly fast and brutal Death Metal. It is nice to see how this band made its progress over the years – when I recall the stuff from their demo 1996 - “Disorder” (I was in touch with NOMAD’S ex-vocalist Christian at that time) and compare it with “The Independence of Observation Choice” the band made huge step forward! I know that on this album they recorded some stuff from this first demo again but it is way more mature and professional – doesn’t even sound close to the stuff from the demo. They became another top-quality Death Metal band and when you listen to this album you have to admit that it is not weaker than last albums of IMMOLATION, MALEVOLENT CREATION, Polish TRAUMA, VADER, MONSTROSITY or BEHEMOTH and this album I recommend to those who like mentioned names. Don’t get me wrong – NOMAD doesn’t copy any of those bands – I just feel like their stuff is in the same vain – fast, complicated, melodic, brutal, full of little interesting details, changes of the tempo, different palette of riffs, etc. Short: Intelligent and well done album! They are able to create interesting atmosphere in the music. From time to time you can enjoy really interesting guitar-solo, wide variety of voc-killz, few intros. The first one – the one that is opening the album is especially good – brings the listener to a kind of hypnotic-state/ trance and with the great wall of Death sound turns into the first track of the album. Most of the tracks are fast but for example “Funeral on the Scaffold of Dreams” is dragging from the speakers slowly, in a marching manner and just by the end transforms to a fast and wild ending. And straight after this one – as for a dessert – we get the cover of the mighty BULLDOZER: “IX” which is closing this material. Really successful album and absolutely the strongest point in the NOMAD’S discography!
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Kreator |
CALL TO TH EINFERNAL HORDES zine #5 |
Just taking a look to the line up of this band - conformed by members of BEHEMOTH, VESANIA and DEVILYN members - and its Polish precedence could be enough for you what to expect from them. Yeah, you nailed perfectly: smashing clean produced Anti-Christian Death Metal of the highest quality!
I know these guys have three records prior to this one I review here but since with "The Independence..." is the first time I face myself with, I will be strictly limited to share with you all what I found in this, their 4th full length album.
In spite NOMAD has obvious parallelisms with others of their country mates they achieved to polish their songs into a more interesting dynamic on its complex structure decorated from insane brutal tight blast beating slay driven riffs to the accurate melodic and neck breaking segments. Something important to be noticed it is the skill they have to provide almost every song an identity on its own yet conceptualizing the album as a whole. Not too many bands have that ability today.
Certainly "The Independence..." looks its own way to recognition and NOMAD quite frankly achieved a really solid album to distant themselves from their country mates yet having the parallelisms already noticeable amongst them. I encourage you to buy it! I wanted to interview them for this accurate issue but unfortunately I got out of space. I will try to have them next time around.
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Gilbert Miranda |
VAMPIR zine #14 |
I’ve mixed this Polish death metal horde with other Polish band with similar name The No-mads, I thought they're the same band, but obviously I was wrong. The No-mads are thrash metal and over here we have very tasty portion of death metal. I have impression that the band haven't done much for their foreign promotion, cause I haven’t met them in the zines that often. Eventhough there are so many' bands hailing from the Polish hell, this band has managed to built pretty characteristic sound that separates them from the other bands. The music is fast, catchy and has some dark melodies. To be more precise, the second song 'The Slanderer' reminds me of Amon Amarth debut CD, but it's mixed with demonic riffs, twisted passages and brilliant vocals. I may clearly say that the band is taken influences from different periods as well, some parts have that old school vibe, while others are more related to the present scene. They have kept that Polish death metal bestiality, but added some more neck-breaking structures that makes this album a fuckin’ must for every death metal freak. I have a CDr for review sent by Maciek (Burning Abyss zine and their manager) and l don't have the lyrics, but cause the band have used same intros on this CD I guess we might face with some conceptual work. L just found out that in this band there are members of Behernoth, Devilyn and Ethelyn, so the experience has paid II bill here I guess. This is the band’s four full-length effort and I think it is work for admiration. As a real bonus for the older generations there is a cover of the Italian kult Bulldozer. I’ll try to interview these guys for the next issue of Vampir cause simply their death metal need wider promotion and support. Until the end of 2008 this album would be released on a tape format by my small label Terror Blast, so expect killer booklet and even more killer death metal!
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Darko |