Acoustic Torment

Item: Schwarzwald
Author: Marco Povervest

Schwarzwald

(2002)

Reviewed by Marco Povervest

Discogs Bandcamp

Label Morija Media ProductionsArt for the Ears2002

black metal death metal doom metal

Imagine the woods of the Schwarzwald area in Germany. Acoustic Torment, the local orchestra starts playing songs from their latest album. You hear instruments such as cello, tubatronic, organ... You might expect the locals starting some kind of folk dance, but that'd be a moshpit though. Well, here's not a group playing some marches as the aforementioned instruments are overpowered by Acoustic Torment's death metal. The first track, Satanic Seduction, gives a good impression of the album. It has all the variety the rest of the album offers: Clean singing, death growls, shrieking, slow parts, acoustic parts. Old school death metal is the essential part of the CD. Yet one song is a real black metal tune: Belated Perception. In length the eight songs vary from 1:37 to over 15 minutes. Only the last song is sung in German though you can hear them utter their English with a thick accent which shows in the clean singing parts in particular. So, how's the quality of the disc? Not bad. Of course, this is not a top notch product as their budget was probably quite low. But it's not quality to be ashamed of either. It gives a good impression of the band. Not all songs are great. I think a song like Belated Perception sticks out.