Upon regrettably missing Evoken’s recent performance at Martyrdoom Festival, I felt it was only appropriate to do an in-depth review of their latest full-length Atra Mors, distributed by Profound Lore Records and scheduled to be released on July 31st. Upon the first few listens of Atra Mors, my impression towards this record gives off a very large amount of improvement and musical experimentation to leave listeners astounded and spellbinded into a state of sorrow and personal empowerment. Evoken have created a record that almost puts me beyond words, as it reminds me of the crushing, funeral doom endeavors of Mournful Congregation and also the somber, solo echoing guitar riffs stand out and tell stories of their own. Atra Mors has successfully embedded a vivid distinction of human emotion into music, a very powerful doom metal record which immediately stands out and flows in a rhythmic pattern from one song unto another.
It starts off with the first track which is titled same as the album and prepares you for a journey towards a personal apocalyptic dreamland. It is a somber starting point which guides listeners into various chambers of one’s own haven of dreams and nightmares alike. From this onward, song after song John Paradiso’s harsh vocals and somber guitar solos embark through various personal visions of times past those to be foretold, expressively as a personal ultimatum as well as the end of all things. All previous pessimistic parables channeled into these recordings and embedded into every structure of what Atra Mors stands for.
“Requies Aeterna” is an interlude track which appropriately separates the story of which is being told through waves and musical frequencies of melancholy and carries on with the next track “The Unechoing Dread” and falls into a powerful ending track “Into Aphotic Devastation”. This album is also remarkable being that it is the 100th release from Profound Lore and most definitely a memorable one from beginning to end. Death to false utopian entities and birth of a new musical accomplishment.
Sample it for yourself here:
Evoken – “Descent into Chaotic Dream”
Full Track Listing:
1. Atra Mors (11:54)
2. Descent into Chaotic Dream (11:14)
3. A Tenebrous Vision (02:19)
4. Grim Eloquence (09:40)
5. An Extrinsic Divide (10:11)
6. Requies Aeterna (01:59)
7. The Unechoing Dread (09:47)
8. Into Aphotic Devastation (10:07)
Total Playing Time: 01:07:11
Doom your life.
Review by T. Terrorist
jon
July 28, 2012 at 7:12 am
great track, great band.