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Thornafire: Vorex deconstrucción

30/07/09 || Trauma

The first thing that strikes me about this album from Chilean group Thornafire is the evil feeling they are going for. The guitars and excellent vocals sung in their mother tongue drive this effect, and I think they succeed. Unfortunately because of the copy we have received and/or a shitty production or whatever, a couple songs cut out before you’d think they should be finished (tracks 1 and 2). That’s a big shame because I think this is some very effective death metal.

While the riffs themselves aren’t overly technical and begin sounding pretty familiar towards the end they make up for it in their place of the music. There are some keyboards throughout to add nothing more than atmosphere, much in the same way Morbid Angel (obviously a large influence on this band) used them.

Getting back to the track issues I had on this disc, of the two that it happens on it angers me the most on “Sucubacion”. The song just slays. Except “the end” of it. It cuts out way too soon and is enough to throw me into a mental rage. “Hacia la ruina del agartha” is the other track it happens on. After “Confeción” ends it goes right into some piano/synth and a dialogue by some female quite abruptly, like it should have been it’s own track. Much like the case with Pestilence’s “Testimony of the ancients” the mood parts/audio clips are kinda useless overall and could just be removed unless they are actually in the songs. Thankfully the music picks back up the ball dropped by those issues.

That aside, the vocals are very good, and singing in a foreign language adds to it all, to me at least. It works in the way that using the native language in Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto” did. Haven’t seen the movie? Go watch it and you’ll hopefully understand what I’m saying, being an English speaker. His growl is very good and he is very intelligible, however his language to me is not. I mentioned the guitars and synth already so I won’t go any more in depth about those. I really like the album cover a lot. If we were back in the days before .mp3’s, I’d have probably purchased this album from the album cover alone.

The drums are good but the production keeps them from shining. The kicks are very quiet and with the production itself being pretty weak means everything lacks an oomph. This is not 1990, and it definitely sounds like that’s what they were going for and what inspired them. I’m sure funding was not in excess, but a weak production is still an issue with me.

Regardless of my complaints, I recommend this album under the condition that the actual release doesn’t have the same abrupt cutting like on the first two tracks as I will assume this is just a localized issue to this one copy. Unfortunately, Thornafire had to cancel their tour with Monstrosity because of issues in the processing of their Visas (don’t blame just the U.S., blame the millions of people trying to get in at the same time). It could have garnered them some more fans because these guys do rise above the pile of feces rushing through the sewers of metal. Hopefully it all gets straightened out so they can come up here soon, and a better production would be great.

Information
Released: 2009
Label: Ibex Moon
Website: www.thornafire.cl
Band
Alex Munoz: bass, vocals
Victor Mac-Namara: guitars
Juan Pablo Donoso: drums

Tracklist
01. Hacia la ruina del agartha
02. Sucubacion
03. Deconstrucción
04. Otredad
05. Confeción
06. En el eon de las falacias
07. Por el delirio
08. Conflagración del monoteismo
09. De la destrucción al trono

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