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    Art for the Ears 2001/Crestfall
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    Crestfall

    Evanescent Imperfection

    (2000)

    Reviewed by Marco Povervest

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    Label independentArt for the Ears2001
    heavy metalmelodic metalthrash metal

    The first Crestfall CD is an EP with four tracks. The first, Frozen Forgiveness, is a thrash tune with raw vocals in the heavy parts and whispers in acoustic passages. The changes from acoustic to heavy are sometimes a bit abrupt. Floodland comes next with the clean singing of Remco. It's a nice melodic metal tune. For all the linguistic freaks the third title was developed: Indeclinable Prognostications. The song starts acoustically and builds up. The final song, Presence, is the longest track. This song has some interesting sounds. No song on this EP is really catchy but the playing is nice and the quality is not bad. It gives a good impression of the skills of this Dutch band. Given time and inspiration they might become really interesting.

    Other coverage for this album

    Dead Zine 2000Reviewed by D_ListerWhat can I say? It's really hard to put your finger on what's not right with this CD except that I don't like it. It just kind of bored me. The band plays a thrashy sort of metal that is a decent style that, as you know if you've read many of my reviews, I'm very keen on. Something about the elements of this band just don't come together quite right. One thing that doesn't work for me are the…

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