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Infernal

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"Infernal" is a great death metal album by a great death metal band, but the bands lack of unity and common direction showed in this effort, the last with Dan Swano. "Hell is Where The Heart Is" was my favorite track. Peter Ttatgren(Hypocrisy) produced and engineered this album and did a great job. You could definitely tell who wrote which song and there is no real continuity throughout the album. Overall though it was an album worth getting but falling short of the bands previous efforts.

I think this album is EoS's second best behind Crimson. Crimson is just mind blowing and really is much different from their other albums... you'll love it or hate it (but you should love it :)) A lot of people would then put Purgatory Afterglow second, or even first in the EoS catalogue. But this one to me has the melodies... it's much more of a melodic death metal album than Purgatory is. Favorite tracks here are Hell Is Where the Heart Is, Forever Together Forever (had the chorus of this stuck in my head for days!), Hollow, and 15-36. all of those have really catchy melodies while retaining brutality. A bit more clean vocals than before, but they are done well and i don't sense a hint of sellout... don't know how anyone could get that from this... but anyway, if you're an EoS fan or a melodic death metal fan this is an excellent purchase, well worth the money.

This is a good album. Death metal, heavy metal. Dan Swano's gutural and clean vocals. It seems that some songs on this album are more oriented to commercial stuff. Clean vocals and melodies made a couple of songs sound more commercial. Besides that you'll find all things common in a death-metal band. Fast songs, violent songs, mid-tempo songs. It sounds great (Peter Tagtgren was the producer). The album is more classical heavy/death metal oriented.

For this album, the band on one hand and Dan Swano on the other, wrote the album separately. For what I know, after releasing "Purgatory Afterglow", Dan moved out and settled far away from where the rest of the band was. So, each part wrote the music and put it all together in the studio. It looks like from the beginning it has always been Dan, and the rest of the band. Egos...

That's why Dan's songs, in which he performs all the instruments (vocals, bass, guitars, keyboards and/or piano) except for the drums, have clearly a more melodic influence and approach, like the use of clean vocals and slowing down the brutality. And you have the band's songs, which are performed as the fivepiece they are, and sound more havy and intense.

That's the reson why the album ends up being so dynamic and diverse, but not at the level of gems such as "Purgatory Afterglow" and "The Spectral Sorrows". However, it seemed to me that this 50/50 blured my final impression of the album, more in a spiritual way than anything else. "Infernal" predicted it and Dan Swano and the band parted ways soon after it was released.

"Infernal", a good closure for EOS's career.

If you want to listen to EOS's best, get "Purgatory Afterglow", or "Crismon".

I'm not a regular EOS fan:I don't think Crimson is the best album of the bend.It sounds for me like a Hard-to-Listen one. Infernal is more compact and listenable.Songs are good,but the power of Purgatory Afterglow And Spectral Sorrows is kinda missing.My favorite songs :Hell is where.. and Losing Myself. Here's my rating of EOS albums(except Evolution,I don't have one yet): 1.Purgatory Afterglow. 2.Cryptic. 3.Spectral Sorrows. 4.Infernal. 5.Crimson. 6.Dan Swano's "Moon Tower".

P.S.For all EOS fans I highly recomend to check out Dan Swano's cover "Country Girl" on "Voice of Hell - Tribute to DIO".