Sněť – Mokvání V Okovech
Release Date: 14th May 2021
Label: Blood Harvest
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Genre: Death Metal.
FFO: Undergang, Autopsy, Blood Red Throne.
Review By: Stefan Daniel Blanita
Sněť hail us from the Czech Republic with their debut album release on May 14th, 2021. And it is Death Metal, nonetheless, dispatched in the form of 8 tracks. Just by reading the titles I was presented with what looks to be a traditional theme in Death Metal: “Kadaver”, “Demon”, “Sakrofag” …you get the gist!
Introductions have been made, the stage is set, let’s get a taste of the metal that the 5 guys from the Czech Republic have iterated!
Utes Mrtvol, the opening track starts eerie, waves hitting the shore, a trailing piano (keyboard)… no lyrics… some sort of an intro to an intro track that at 00:50 brings forth distorting screeching guitars and obviously the first hook: Bolt Thrower like. For now a calmer pace contrasting my preconceived idea that this is going to be a “fast fest”. It will introduce some snail juicy guitar riffs but it will not accelerate or decelerate until it melts into the next track…
Kun Kadaver, (horse cadaver?) breaks the ice, blast beats and riffs galloping as if disoriented into the main groove alternating fast but steady and not hasty. First taste of the gutturals comes within a minute. In conjunction with the low tone and groove of the track I loved it. Diverse enough in the changing of riffs and hooks, it is about as best as it can be for a 2nd track on an album. I started noddin’! Sickly!
Behold Princip Krizeni. His Royalty brings a bit of doom into the landscape. It complements the low growls and their mid tempo proclivity. A sludgy pace, culminating purposely with a dying growl and obnoxious distorted guitars. Pff, royalties always trail to bask in their splendor.
I couldn’t run so I just put my hands behind my back, track 4 Demon. So…there’s punk, death metal. It is all mingling together to chase me. The growls though, a bit too faded. It happens, when you try too hard and too low. Doom again, no…punk; no… death metal. Ambiguous, just like a demon.
Nile (without Egypt) combined. It crushes, churns…but taste for yourselves the ascending of Frozen Hill. Please!
While the next two tracks Folivor and Sakrofag cement their style, caramelizing buzzsaw guitars with blast beats and really low vocals, enter Vesmirna Saliva, a “finis coronat opus” kind of story, sitting well over 6 minutes, reminds me of Paradise Lost; great slow hooks, lowest of the growls, until it bursts in cool grooves, a guitar solo…doomy towards the end. Curiously the album ends with an outro, but not by itself, but rather incorporated into the last track.
(3 / 5)
