Search - Cianide :: The Dying Truth

Metal for the coming end

torquemada | beirut, lebanon | 02/17/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"in a world of crumbling human values and dead morals, cianide is the

voice of torture within all of us who dare not make a change for fear of

being crushed by the tide to be resisted. go with the flow? die trying to

make a difference? is death worth it? is there another way?

questions are left unanswered while the oppressive machine of death

doom and destruction (ha!) splashes its way through a gore ridden

landscape where only one thing is certain: human race has failed.

human race deserves its plagues and its (irreversible?) decent into

neurosis, chaos, down to a grotesque demise.

slow guitars and rumbling bass carry low atonal growls across fuming

fields of waste and death, man's culmination of his own 'modernity'.

if there's anything that would paint with sounds, a world in its death throes,

it's the album closer "second life" and its mindblowing outro where guitars

and drums slowly collapse into a sonic sludge of nihilistic oppression.

"no chance for a second life"...

this is one of those few remaining bands who still put content into the foreground

of their creative process. lyrics, thus, are remarkably visual, yet remain striking

in their simplicity. the content is then encased in sober, unpretentious musicianship

which is unaware of its greatness in delivering without pompous arrangements, solos or over the top production. Hail!"