Death Requisite - Prophets of Doom (90/100)
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Death Requisite - Prophets of Doom
Year: 2011
Genre: Melodic Death/Black Metal/Deathcore
Mixing extreme metal with any sort of 'core genre at all is sure to raise the attention of some people and anger the elitists. For some reason, the mix is often considered unacceptable, but I find nothing wrong with it. I really like most of the 'core genres, so mixing them with my favorite genres (extreme metal) sounds fine to me, especially when it's done well, as it is here. Death Requisite plays dark, extreme metal/'core drawing influences mostly from black metal, death metal, melodic death metal, and deathcore (though you can hear a little metalcore here and there too). The 'core is used less often than the extreme metal is, though. All these different (and compatible) genres mixed into one offers some great variety that prevents the music from getting stale. I know that it's easy to keep things interesting for a 16-minute EP, but I think that this style would also work for a full album.
The song structure and general composition is excellent. The band seamlessly transitions from fast, tremolo'd black metal to a typical death metal sound, to a fast, melodic, Gothenburg-style, to slow, pounding deathcore. You'll find some great, memorable riffs in there, especially in the melodic death sections. The drummer seems fully competent, and he always knows how to accompany each style that the songs use. I don't hear a whole lot of blastbeating here, but he still does some faster patterns during the black metal parts that work really well. The vocals also catch my attention. It sounds as if the band has two vocalists. There are high growls that are used more during the black and death sections, and lower growls that are used during all of the styles. Sometimes they're overlapped, meaning that either the band has two vocalists or they just did two recordings and put them on top of each other. Either way, both styles sound great, and it's another example of how the band knows how to play all of the styles that they chose.
Music like this doesn't really need atmosphere, but the band decided to create some anyway, which is awesome. There are keyboards in all three songs. They're used quite well, and while they may be the slightest bit cheesy, they aren't overdone and overall they accomplish what they're supposed to do. There's a really cool section in the middle of "Martyr's Revenge" where the entire song slows down and the guitars drop out and let the bass play with some keyboards and awesome clean vocals. The band creates a very dark sound with this atmosphere, which matches their lyrics quite well. I don't know what the exact lyrics are, but from what I've read and from what I've discerned (the vocalist[s] is/are good at enunciation), the lyrics are a warning to the unrighteous (thus the fitting title, Prophets of Doom).
Overall, this is an awesome, original EP that I recommend getting even if 'core isn't totally your thing.
90/100
-CrimsonWarrior
Buy it from the band's Bandcamp:
deathrequisite.bandcamp.com/album/prophets-of-doom
Buy it from Metal Helm:
metalhelm.com/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=182_183&products_id=826
Buy it from Christian Metal Distro:
christianmetaldistro.storenvy.com/products/14831133-death-requisite-prophets-of-doom-debut-demo-ep
Buy it from SkyBurnsBlack:
skyburnsblack.storenvy.com/products/15967206-death-requisite-prophets-of-doom
Year: 2011
Genre: Melodic Death/Black Metal/Deathcore
Mixing extreme metal with any sort of 'core genre at all is sure to raise the attention of some people and anger the elitists. For some reason, the mix is often considered unacceptable, but I find nothing wrong with it. I really like most of the 'core genres, so mixing them with my favorite genres (extreme metal) sounds fine to me, especially when it's done well, as it is here. Death Requisite plays dark, extreme metal/'core drawing influences mostly from black metal, death metal, melodic death metal, and deathcore (though you can hear a little metalcore here and there too). The 'core is used less often than the extreme metal is, though. All these different (and compatible) genres mixed into one offers some great variety that prevents the music from getting stale. I know that it's easy to keep things interesting for a 16-minute EP, but I think that this style would also work for a full album.
The song structure and general composition is excellent. The band seamlessly transitions from fast, tremolo'd black metal to a typical death metal sound, to a fast, melodic, Gothenburg-style, to slow, pounding deathcore. You'll find some great, memorable riffs in there, especially in the melodic death sections. The drummer seems fully competent, and he always knows how to accompany each style that the songs use. I don't hear a whole lot of blastbeating here, but he still does some faster patterns during the black metal parts that work really well. The vocals also catch my attention. It sounds as if the band has two vocalists. There are high growls that are used more during the black and death sections, and lower growls that are used during all of the styles. Sometimes they're overlapped, meaning that either the band has two vocalists or they just did two recordings and put them on top of each other. Either way, both styles sound great, and it's another example of how the band knows how to play all of the styles that they chose.
Music like this doesn't really need atmosphere, but the band decided to create some anyway, which is awesome. There are keyboards in all three songs. They're used quite well, and while they may be the slightest bit cheesy, they aren't overdone and overall they accomplish what they're supposed to do. There's a really cool section in the middle of "Martyr's Revenge" where the entire song slows down and the guitars drop out and let the bass play with some keyboards and awesome clean vocals. The band creates a very dark sound with this atmosphere, which matches their lyrics quite well. I don't know what the exact lyrics are, but from what I've read and from what I've discerned (the vocalist[s] is/are good at enunciation), the lyrics are a warning to the unrighteous (thus the fitting title, Prophets of Doom).
Overall, this is an awesome, original EP that I recommend getting even if 'core isn't totally your thing.
90/100
-CrimsonWarrior
Buy it from the band's Bandcamp:
deathrequisite.bandcamp.com/album/prophets-of-doom
Buy it from Metal Helm:
metalhelm.com/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=182_183&products_id=826
Buy it from Christian Metal Distro:
christianmetaldistro.storenvy.com/products/14831133-death-requisite-prophets-of-doom-debut-demo-ep
Buy it from SkyBurnsBlack:
skyburnsblack.storenvy.com/products/15967206-death-requisite-prophets-of-doom