Quest For Aidance - Fallen Man Collection

Published Nov. 02 2006

*=Staff's pick	Imminence Distant World Arrival* The Hunter And The Prey Vanishment Man Is The Harvest* Cranial Works Of Art 7th Target Yield*

Genre	Death Metal	Christian Älvestam	Vocals
Tracks	8	Christian Älvestam	Guitar
Runningtime	10 Min.	Christian Lundgren	Guitar
Label	Pulverised Records	Anders Johnsson	Bass
Release	06 July 2006	Henrik Schönström	Drums
Country	Sweden	-	Keyboards
Similar artists	Vomitory

Remember the once so glorious british grind inquistadores Napalm Death? I've often wondered if that path of the death metal genre got lost somewhere between Harmony Corruption and the Utopia Banished album. The kind of death that flirted with disaster and wielded equal parts of grind, crust and noise, the really dirty disharmonial violence. I guess that a band like Vomitory and now also Quest For Aidance have picked up some of these crackled pieces and fragments from an era once so interesting.

Swedish Quest For Aidance´s debut, Fallen Man Collection, is a creation of eight songs that gives us a total running time somewhere near ten minutes. Awesome. Well, it aint near the assault that Sore Throat once managed to produce, but it feels once again fresh to listen to intensive songs that ends after one and a half minute. Quest For Aidance deliver quite brutal and raw death metal with loads of groove and heavy beats. Not perfection but there is something about Fallen Man Collection that appeals to me. The music feels very simpel, almost primitive at a first listening but after a while it becomes obvious that there are a lot of work and thoughts put into this musical meltdown.

The ugly vocals from Christian Älvestam sound like a reincarnation of guttural anguish of the late eighties or early nineties. All in all, I think that Quest For Aidance feels like a band with great potential. The material points in the right direction, so to speak, and I'm looking forward to hear more from theese guys as they seem to know what they're doing. Cool and ugly death metal that are materialized in songs like Distant World Arrival, Man Is The Harvest and the extremely good Yield.

Fallen Man Collection is like a fresh wind that leaves you with a fragrance of death.

Production	Vocals	Compositions
6	7	7

Summary
7 chalices of 10 - Tim