Evocation - Evoked From Demonic Depths - The Early Years

Published June 20 2012

*=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	-	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

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	6	8	7	7,5

Summary
7 chalices of 10 - Bjorn