Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Ceremonial Castings/Reign In Hell (Tribute To Jeff Hanneman)/Dead Moon Records/2013 EP Review


  Ceremonial  Castings  are  a  band  from  Battle  Ground, Washington  that plays  a  musical  style  they  describe  as  being  deathphonic  black  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2013  ep  "Reign  In  Hell  (Tribute  To  Jeff  Hanneman)"  which  was  released  by  Dead Moon  Records and  only  contains  Slayer  covers.

  "Black  Magic"  begins  with  some  ambient  sounding  synths and  chanting  and  then  some  melodic  guitar  riffs  and d rums  kick  in  as  well  as  some  heavier  riffing  while  keeping  the  synths  in  the background  and  then  the  grim  sounding high  pitched  black  metal  screams  kick  in  along  with  some  deep  death  metal  growls  as  well  as  some  attempts  at  power  metal  style  screams  and  halfway  through  the  song  guitar  solos  and  leads  start  coming  in  for  a  few  seconds.

  "Born  Of  Fire"  begins  with  some  powerful  drums  and  heavy  guitar  riffs  before  the  grim  black  metal  vocals  start  kicking  in  along  with  some  high  pitched  elements  and  synths  which  leads  up to  some blast  beats and  death  metal  growls  and  a  few  seconds  later guitar  solos  and  leads  start  coming  in  and  out  of  the  song  along  with  some  more  blast  beats  as  well  as  some  slower  riffing  being  utilized  in  certain  sections  of  the  song  as  well  as  a  brief  use  of  spoken  word  parts.

   "South  Of  Heaven"  begins with  some  slow and  dark  guitar  riffs  as  well  as  some  guitar  leads  and  then  the  drums  and  synths  kick  in  and  a  few  seconds  spoken  word  parts  and  bass  guitars  make  their  presence  known  in  the  song  which  leads  up  to  some  grim  black  metal  vocals  and  as  the  song  moves  on  the  guitar  leads  start  coming  in  and  out.

  "Postmortem"  begins  with  some  heavy  guitar  and  bass  riffs  along  with  some  drums  and  then t he  synths start  kicking  in  which  leads  up  to  the  grim  black  metal  vocals  and  towards  the end  the  song  starts  adding  in  some  faster  elements  along  with  some  shouting  style  vocals  and  the  song  closes  with  thunder  sounds.

  "Raining  Blood" begins  with  thunder  sounds  and  drums  before  the  dark  and  melodic  guitar  riffs  start  kicking  in  before  going into  a  faster  direction  along  with  some  blast  beats  and  a  mixture  of  shouting  and  grim  black  metal  vocals  and  halfway  through  the  song  there  is  a  brief  use  of  spoken  word  parts  before  the  synths  are  added  in  which  leads  up  to  some  guitar  solos and  leads  a  few  seconds  later  and  the  song  closes  with  the  sounds  of  rain.

  Song  lyric s cover  Satanism,  and  Darkness  themes,  while  the  production  has  avery  strong,  powerful,  heavy  and  dark  sound.

  In  my  opinion  this  is  a  great  sounding  recording  from  Ceromonial  Castings  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  Slayer  and  synth  orientated  black  metal,  you  should  check  out  this  ep.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS INCLUDE  "Black  Magic'  and  "Raining  Blood".   RECOMMENDED.

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