Hematic - Ace of Cups

 

Track 1 "intro" starts with a beautiful piece of guitar work, unusual for such a heavy band as an instrumental song to start an album.

Track 2 "ascension" also starts with a combination of clean and heavy guitar before a huge scream resonates to get the track rolling. The track is sounding quite black metal-like and I really like it.

Track 3 "conjuring malice" is more wicked guitar work with a combination of death metal/deathcore vocals that give it a lot of punch. The song ends at a furious pace.

Track 4 "hollows" starts with a nice clean guitar part with a little melodic solo over the top. It then moves into some nice clean vocals until halfway through the song and the death vocals kick in a very cool song.

Track 5 "fate dwells" starts with a huge deathcore vocal style with up tempo drumming that has a good beat. The bridge reverts back to the clean guitar to close the track.

Track 6 "darling,dearest,dead" once again starts with clean guitar work and continues through the entire song which I really enjoyed.

The final track "empty vessels" is most definitely the heaviest song on the album showing great guitar play and drumming with a wicked tempo and dual sounding vocals with even a more deathcore presence about it. 

Overall I really liked this album and give it 4 out of 5 roos.

-- Scott Wells (Bury  the Betrayer)