Album Review: From Ashes Reborn - Existence Exiled (2018)
Picture Credit: From Ashes Reborn Artwork: Chris Cold From Ashes Reborn - Existence Exiled Release Date: May 01, 2018 Label: selfrelease Format: CD / Digital Length: 31:40 Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Melodic Black Metal Origin: Germany If you follow this site frequently, you might know that the prefix "Melodic" often triggers some skepticism in me when talking about Metal genres. Yet, I know there are plenty of amazing artists and bands in the Melodic [insert subgenre] Metal sphere and thus, I am trying to give these genres a fighting chance over and over again. And hence, her is "Existence Exiled", the debut album by Germany's From Ashes Reborn. From Ashes Reborn are without any doubt capable of creating gloomy atmosphere and buldung up tension. In the Black Metal-influenced parts especially, the music sounds like a rapidly approaching thunderstorm that is about to bring the final flood of doom. When the tempest of staccati merges into heavily grooving Death ...