EP Review: Burn Down Eden - Epiphany
Reviewed by Matthew Williams
If you want a five song EP that’s going to give you a solid right hook to the jaw, followed with a left upper cut, then you don’t need to look much further than this little gem from German powerhouse Burn Down Eden. This is the successor to “Dismal” which they released early in the year and when combined, you have a full album of brutal music.
Celebrating ten years as a band, they wanted to try something a little different, hence the two EP’s instead of one album, but when you hear opening track “Epistrophy” you’ll hear an evocative song which sets a high standard for what it about to come. The technical guitar playing is rifftastic and it rips along at a frenetic pace. The ugliness of humanity is on show with “Fake News for Breakfast” as it’s a bleak, depressing song, but executed exceptionally well, with Pether’s vocals gushing out like water from a broken dam.
“Tears of Persephone” has a bit more of a technical feel to it, with the guitar sounds of William and Tom complementing each other. It doesn’t appear too manic, more controlled aggression some might say, and the harmonies are combined to give a more atmospheric ambience to the song. Then we get a bit more of the madness of earlier songs, with “Burn Down Eden”. This song sums up the band perfectly, with high-speed drum blasts, shredding all over the place, hints of groove, all smothered in Black Metal attitude.
They finish the EP with “Suckbox” a three-minute killer track, that is my favourite one, with the solid rhythm from Marco on bass and Warni on drums, letting the twin guitars commit an aural assault on your senses. The song feels aggressive and raw, whilst still maintaining that precision in their delivery. Overall, it’s a decent EP that fans of brutal, melodic, technical black metal will devour.
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