Gorement - The Ending Quest

Death metal, Sweden, 1994
Crypta Records

The first song My Ending Quest begins with a slow, doomy riff and a solo-like lead over top. As it progresses it alternates between the doom riffs and a couple of much faster blasting riffs. There are many lead hooks throughout the songs that tie it together.

That's definitely the theme of this album, doom/death contrasting with fast death riffs and plenty of lead hooks and memorable riffing. Every thing on this album is tune low, vocals, guitars. This band knows what they want, and can achieve it. I highly recommend this is as a lost gem that just got lost in the rush of the Swedish death metal scene of the 90s. It's very unfortunate they never got a chance to develop further.

1. My Ending Quest
2. Vale of Tears
3. Human Relic
4. The Memorial
5. The Lost Breed
6. Silent Hymn (for the Dead)
7. Sea of Silence
8. Obsequies of Mankind
9. Darkness of the Dead
10. Into Shadows

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Mefisto - Megalomania

Thrash/speed metal, Sweden, 1986
Demo

The production is possibly above average for the time. The drums are for the most part clear, vocals are some what hazy but that's mostly the vocalists style (ghoulish harsh screams soaked in reverb), guitars and bass are very surprisingly clear.

The riffing is where this band shines, they alternate between simple Teutonic thrashing and more complex, solo/leads inside a twisting song structures. I am quite surprised at how well this band is musically developed considering their time and place. The song Frost of Inferno features an acoustic intro with a long airy solo over top. In fact there are plenty of solos, solos may take up more time throughout this twenty minute demo than the vocals do.

It's no surprise why this band helped kick started Sweden's extreme metal scene. Unfortunately they never got past releasing two demos.

1. Betrayed Truth
2. Act Dead
3. Missing in Action
4. Frost of Inferno

 Mefisto: Metal-Archives.com

 Mefisto - Megalomania: mediafire.com (zip, 26MB)