COLOSSO - Apocalypse EP
Transcending Obscurity Records
So who's all up for some death metal dedicated to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Let's see a show of hands. OK everybody except that hipster dude in the back. Fine, security get that loser out of here while the rest of us enjoy something cool. Seriously what is not cool about the Christian foretelling of Revelations fueled via death metal?
As I always say, to me doing SFM666 is an education as opposed to I being some harbinger of metal knowledge dictatorship. Case in point, here we have COLOSSO from Portugal who've been around for almost a decade. They have four previously released full lengths out as well as a handful of EPs. Sorry guys I'm not perfect. But I did find this release of yours to be truly interesting.
Basically, on this release, COLOSSO is founding member Max Tome (guitars, keyboards and vocalist.) with a drummer and bassist performing the music while guest vocalists sing on 3 tracks. Tome sings on one cut. Now if you are an aficionado on the Portuguese metal underground then you might be familar with these individuals. They are Guilherme Henriques of the bands OAK and GAEREA. There's also Diogo Santana of ANALEPSY and Sergio Afonso of BLEEDING DISPLAY.
Musically this is not over the top unique but very interesting which will hold you. The opener "Pestilence" is the longest cut on here logging in at just over eight minutes. Basically a death doom scenario with an amazing atmospheric base. The chiming guitar soloing shines. Guilherme Henriques of the band OAK does the vocals which are fully bestial.
Sergio Afonso, of BLEEDING DISPLAY does the vocals on "War" which is basic brutal DM singing. The music starts out brute forceful at first then leads into a more melodic DM style. Max Tome takes on vocal duties for "Death" and it's my favorite cut on this release. He's got this airy clean vocal set over a mostly aggressive and progressive death metal riff push. Which also allows in this melodic and yet doom painful outro.
Last cut, "Famine" is sung by Diogo Santana of ANALEPSY. Mainly it's brutal DM vocals sung over a melodic death doom back beat. Here's where the headbanging will commence. A decent way to end an engaging release.
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