MEDIA: Review

The Call Of The Sea. ODIOSIUS LARVAE MAGAZINE

When you first look at this demo, you don't know what to expect. It's not one of those typical covers that make you know what's inside. The cover is so well done, and the whole layout is so absolutely great, it just makes you want to hear the songs. The intro, "The Call Of The Sea" is beautiful and mysterious as the cover. Then, the track "Midnight Execution" shows you the real POSTMORTEM: Heavy, brutal and competent. This track can be described as a mix of brutal Death with Thrash (old Kreator records influences, I guess) and some Black Metal ways. As the demo plays along, I realised POSTMORTEM are severely into all these styles, but they just don't know which direction to follow as they main basis. Each song is preceded by an odd comes in.

However, in the last track of the demo (before the beautiful intro - did I used this word before in this review? - outro), "Blowing Waves", POSTMORTEM discovers, if you ask me, what they do best. The melodic and aggressive Death Metal played in this trackis so fucking great and energetic that these guys HAVE to follow them in their future works. A four rate for them mainly because of this great great track.

ODIOSIUS LARVAE MAGAZINE #10, Portugal
September 1999
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