Suddenly, as it is usual, we are receiving lots of minimalistic bands with straight-ahead sound, minimum art covers, and lots, but lots of 1980’s Extreme Metal influences. I’d rather say the urgency and despair of 1980’s Extreme Metal with angry vocals, nervous and frantic drumming plus simple guitars played with lots of fury.
First of all, the band’s name call the attention after all it is not everyday you run into a band called Tyrannosatan, isn’t it? Second of all, the mix the band does with 1980’s Thrash Metal with modern Black Metal is really awesome. It displays that urgency only Old School Extreme Metal bands had with modern Black Metal guitar riffs that give the music some shinning sound. I just love modern drumming techniques, but sometimes all we want is the simple and fast drumming of the 1980’s that required lots of technique and breath. By the way, if memory serves me right, the first modern Metal drummer I noticed of was Judas Priest’s Scott Travis with “Painkiller.” I do not know if he was really the first, but truth is it was Metal music drummers that started with this new flamboyant way of playing the drums. It consists of using lots of the pieces of the drum kit together. Giving second thoughts to the matter, now it occurs to me that it was early Death Metal drummers that brought up the blast beats. More notably, it was Sarcofago’s drummer DD Crazy that kind of made them up. But that is debatable.
Well, our subject today is “Babylons Skräck,” an album that mixes both influences from Old School Extreme Metal and some modern guitar techniques brought from Black Metal. As I said before, the album has that feeling of urgency that is simply remarkable. Album opener “Vemhir” blasts as a hellish storm full rage and wrath, then, the fan will have the strangement of the combination of the guitar and drumming techniques, which is Tyrannosatan‘s signature. The more complex instrumentals of “Bland Stenar Och Rötter” showcases this better to the fan where the band is able to mix their straight-aheadness with a more flamboyant instrumental performance. Ironically, “Astronomicon” is much less complex with some naive guitar riffings with a Hardcore inspiration. The chery of the cake is album tittle “Babylons Skräck” mixing some doomy mood with a hard punching drumming plus desperate vocals to burst into a violent bloody stream after the second minute. The track has some neandertal mood given the vocals that gives it a secret charm, if you know what I mean.
Tyrannosatan “Babylons Skräck” will be released on April 04th Jawbreaker Records.
Track Listing:
01. Vemhir
02. Babylons Skräck
03. Bland Stenar Och Rötter
04. Astronomicon
Watch “Babylons Skräck” official lyric video:
Source: metaladdicts.com
