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Evocation - Evoked From Demonic Depths - The Early Years

Published June 20 2012


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=Staff's pick

A Wind Has Risen
Through The Darkened Peril*
The Ancient Gate
Desolated Spirits
On A Journey To Heaven
Where The Headstones Shine*
Veils Were Blown*
Spiritual Affinity
Outro
On A Journey To Heaven (Rehearsal)
Where The Headstones Shine (Rehearsal)
Spiritual Affinity (Rehearsal)
Veils Were Blown (Rehearsal)
Genesis


Genre Death Metal
Thomas Josefsson
Vocals
Tracks 14
Vesa Kenttäkumpu
Guitar
Running time 57 Min.
Marko Palmén
Guitar
Label Century Media
T. Josefsson/Martin Toresson
Bass
Release 25 June 2012
Janne Kenttäkumpu Bodén
Drums
Country Sweden
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Keyboard
Producer -
Similar artists Entombed, Grave

Although they were a pretty active band in the beginning of the '90s, Evocation split up after a couple of years and it would take twelve years to reform again. Because of this it took until 2007 to release their debut album, Tales From The Tomb, which I still treasure as one of my favourite albums of the genre.

Evoked From Demonic Depths - The Early Years is a compilation, or documentation if you will, of their first years. It contains remastered versions of the first two demos, The Ancient Gate and Promo 1992, along with some rehearsal tracks and a new recording of the song Genesis which never has been released in a studio version.

There isn't really much to say about the content; if you haven't heard these demos before, take this chance to do so because these remastered demos sound fantastic and contain some truly great songs. The rehearsal tapes are of course somewhat rough sounding but still a nice bonus and the recently recorded version of Genesis is really good.

In my taste it sounds a tad bit too polished in comparison with the brilliant demos but that's just nit-picking. Basically, for any fan of the early Swedish death-metal scene, this is a goodie-bag which definitely deserves some attention.

See also review of: Excised And Anatomised , Illusions Of Grandeur

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Summary



7 chalices of 10 - Bjorn


Related links:

www.evocation.se
www.facebook.com/evocationswe
www.myspace.com/evocationswe