CREMATORY – Infinity CD
Massacre Records
Once in a while I’ll throw this band’s 2006 release, Klagebilder, on the stereo for my Sunday morning coffee and wake up period. German Gothic is perfect for those times and when I say “Gothic” I’m not talking about Hot Topic/Spencer Gifts Goth chic. CREMATORY has been purveyors of Gothic Metal since 1992. Actually I didn’t know they were still around but then if you regulate the one CD you have by a band to a once in a while Sunday morning listen ya kinda lose touch. Seeing that they’re now on Massacre Records is interesting since the label is home to many bands that are in their “We’re Still Active” career period. Scumfeast Metal feels obligated to review atleast a few Gothic Metal releases just to show that the sub genre is not all about chicks wearing low cut, cleavage exposing prom dresses, trying to be LACUNA COIL clones or full of chicken hawks dressed like Rob Halford during his TWO period.
Infinity is more mainstream sounding then what I’m used to hearing from them. Wow after nineteen fucking years they might now have radio appeal or atleast play a song or two on cable. CREMATORY did have some Gothenburg Melodic Death Metal influence before, but on here with the clean and growled vocals it stands out more. Plus there’s more songs sung in English which I find to be commercially acceptable. They’ve turned into the type of band which you hate but you’ll take your girlfriend to see just to please her, bands like SOILWORK, DARK TRANQUILITY or some other Swedish Melo-Death suppository act. Then there’s the DEPECHE MODE cover, “Black Celebration”, which is a regressive page right out of some well known English Doom Metal acts experiments from the late 90s/early 2000s. It’s the perfect number for your cousin Fred who on Wednesday evenings becomes Cousin Freda all cross dressed out (of the closet) and heads on down to the dance club to relive his/her rave days sans the drugs of course.
There are maybe one or two songs on here that are palatable enough that if you just heard them then you go out and buy this thinking its cool. Then you listen to the whole thing and wonder if the rest of your Teutonic Metal CD catalog has eyes which are staring at you in disgrace. When that KREATOR flyer falls off the wall and bursts into flame then you’ll know.
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