The Amenta Occasus (Listenable Records) By: Jeb Branin THE AMENTA hail from Australia and feature seasoned veterans of Oz's black and death metal scenes. Which veterans, I can't tell you because the band in an incredibly rare (but admirable) move does not promote the individuals in the band, shifting all focus instead on the sum of the parts. A wise move since on the strength of the music they play, this band is bound to turn more than a few heads in the extreme underground.
Imagine Occasus boasts the raw and frantic explosiveness of classic black metal underscoring the heavy and harsh violence of neo-death metal.
Add to the mixture a generous, but not overbearing, amount of industrial enhancements and encrust the entire sound with experimental noise and you'll have a sense of where THE AMENTA are at.
Lyrically the band presents some very intriguing poetry that examines nihilism and existentialism rather than the trite and all-too-tired gore and Satanism. If you're wise enough to pick this up, you'll be impressed.
THE AMENTA hail from Australia and feature seasoned veterans of Oz's black and death metal scenes. Which veterans, I can't tell you because the band in an incredibly rare (but admirable) move does not promote the individuals in the band, shifting all focus instead on the sum of the parts. A wise move since on the strength of the music they play, this band is bound to turn more than a few heads in the extreme underground.
