Apolion/Death Grows Into Sperm/Bylec-Tum/2009 CD Review

  Apolion  are  a  band  from  Italy  that  plays  misanthropic  form  of  raw  and  primitive  sounding  black  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2009  album  "Death  Grows  Into  Sperm"  which  was  released  by Bylec-Tum.

  Drums  range  from  slow,  mid  paced  to  fast  drumming  with  some  blast  beats  being  thrown  into  the  music  at  times,  while  the  bass  playing  has  a  very  strong  and  powerful  tone  with  primitive  riffs  that  dominate  throughout  the  recording..

  Rhythm  guitars  range  from  slow,  mid  paced  to  fast  black  metal  riffs  that  are  very  dark,  raw  and  primitive  sounding  with  some  thrash  metal  influences  and  dark  sounding  melodies  being  thrown  into  the  riffing  along  with  a  brief  use  of  soft  and  clean  playing  being  utilized  on  a  couple  of  songs,  in  addition  the  songs  are  very  long  and  epic  in  length,  while  the  lead  guitars  are  very  chaotic  and  melodic  sounding  black  metal  guitar  solos  and  leads.

  Vocals  are  mostly  grim sounding  black  metal  screams  with  some  spoken  word  parts,  while  the  lyrics  cover  hateful  and  misanthropic  themes,  as  for  the  production  it  has  a  very  dark,  heavy,  raw  and  primitive sound  while  you  can  still  hear  all  of  the  musical  instruments  that a re  present  on  the  recording.

  In  my  opinion  Apolion  are  a  very  great  sounding  grim,  misanthropic,  raw  and  primitive  black  metal  band  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  style  of  music,  you  should  check  out  this  recording.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Death  Grows  Into  Sperm"  "Inverted  King"  and  "Life's  Remains".  RECOMMENDED  BUY.

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