Temple of Dagon send their Lovecraftian greetings from North Hollywood, California and Book of Azathoth is their demo recorded sometime this year.Aesthetically this is a journey into Lovecraft's universe: Dagon was the title of a story of H.P. Lovecraft written back in 1917 and Azathoth was a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle stories. Music wise this is a blending of crust, grind and metal with metal-edged guitar riffs, heavy as expected and rhythm section that builds a metal background for the angry screamed/yelled vocals and the heavy guit sound. Tracks are fast (but not so fast) with slower parts and the sound quality is excellent, there's no much variety but the band keeps the stuff far from being monotonous and boring with beat changes and smart riffs, even the six minute long "GARP" is a nice track, lyrically they probably walk in the same Lovecraftian pathways, artwork was made by Doomsday Graphics. This is nice for the metal orientated crusties and crust orientated metal heads
9 comments:
thanks for posting this...it is so sick.
if you are into black metal and lovecraft, please check out the Yog Sothoth demo on my blog @ http:scummified.blogspot.com
thanks for the post, and keep up the good work!
oops...http://scummified.blogspot.com
hiDiiug, thanks foe the comment, no i m'not into Lovecraft and only a little in black metal but i will give a try to Yog Sothoth.
cheers
well, hopefully theres some other stuff on my blog you might find interesting...keep up the good work...i follow this blog and you always post some excellent stuff.
7" sorry to hear you're not into Lovecraft. For those that are here's a great website http://www.templeofdagon.com/lovecraft-archive/ for poetry and stories.
I see the band is on tour in November from their Myspace. Come on over to the east coast guys.
Hey! Thanks for the review. We just wanted to let you all know that that link no longer works, so if you want to get the demo you can download it here - http://www.mediafire.com/?2v0bg5b533qg7ek.
PS - We're working on a full length that should be out in the next couple of months titled 'Rituals of the Deep' - Stay tuned!! For all updates on what we do check us out at www.facebook.com/templeofdagon
3 years later, and that LP is finally released. Check it out here: http://templeofdagon.bandcamp.com/releases
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