Krampus - Survival Of The Fittest |
Published July 30 2012
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Arise (The Day Of Reckoning) |
| Genre | Folk Metal |
Filippo Gianotti
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Vocals
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| Tracks | 11 |
Leonardo Rizzi
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Guitar
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| Running time | 41 Min. |
Alessandro Galliera
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Guitar
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| Label | NoiseArt Records |
Davide Zamparo
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Bass
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| Release | 24 August 2012 |
Carlo Andrian
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Drums
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| Country | Italy |
Tommaso Adriano
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Keyboard
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| Producer | Filippo Gianotti |
Marika Geremia/Matteo Sisti
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Violin/Bagpipe
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| Similar artists | Eluveitie | ||
Traditional folk metal meets diversity when Italian octet Krampus release their full length debut album. Nothing groundbreaking I must say, but still interesting and slightly different from all thousands of bands that follow the trends. It's hard not to these days, when it seems like everything is already recorded.
Survival Of The Fittest is of course based on heavy folk metal, but with their death metal parts, clean sung songs, aggressive songs with clean choruses, semi-ballads and those electronic tones in for instance the furious track Redemption, who makes me think of the disco era back in the late seventies, they take one step away from the traditional approach. Make no mistake though, the disco tones are no way near significant for this album and just a contribution to the overall feeling.
The major part of the songs are heavy and a bit brutal like Beast Within and Aftermath. A couple of songs are, in a good way, totally out of sense. The Bride could, with a ounce of imagination, be on an American alternative metal album and so could the chorus on Rebirth. Further we get a couple of decent guitar solos, as well as violins and bagpipes to the full.
When in the genre folk metal, all kinds of different and
not traditional metal instruments set their marks on the final result
and I suggest you listen to this album a few times before deciding what
it's all about. If you're into modern folk metal, I would be surprised
if you don't dig this album.
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Summary
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6 chalices of 10 - Tobbe |
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