Advena
Realität
Independent
Advena is the all metal band from Passau/Germany. Songs from Realitat has been initially composed in 2011-2012 and released as a demo in 2013 but with very limited availability. So, my review is about new and final release of those old songs which they recorded again in their own studio and released in 2016.
Very strength of the music is their ability to mix various styles of aggressive music in song structures. Once you could think they are no more but metal core band which is persistent in most of their vocals, suddenly they strike with some melodic, like-Scandinavian death metal guitars and even thrash metal riffs. There actually is a lot of good, thrashing vibe in their tracks which is how their guitars work. I leave a question mark to some clean and female vocals. I think it could be done better and overall, they just sound better with screams. For me, the maintaining power of this album is their instrumental side which is very entertaining to hear.
The songs sound modern and so is individual approach to music they play. They influences are American death core with dose of progressive metal, also. From time to time Advena uses some electronics but not to relieve music but give it another, like techno- music twist and hint of doom metal. Their songs are technical but they ease it to you, so I do not have to crack their ideas down in my head to understand it. The music throughout is super energetic and I can smell a lot of good blood in the songs. Realitat is a very dynamic album and as Advena still remains as a young band... They seem to have all those boiling ideas in their minds that they want to filter through music and explode the sound of it over your head so it can`t last forgotten. I am going to remember Advena name because it`s a new one for me and they got me under skin with their speed and many times-very amazing arrangements in music.
I believe that Realitat is a first step for them to "catch a big fish" which could be another as good album as this one.
Line up:
Chris Kolias-lead guitar
Daniel Esterbauer-vocals
Dominik Jagenteufel-rhythm guitars, clean vocals
Michael Schmidt-bass
Dennis Stirner-drums
Tracklist:
1 Realität
2 Herztod
3 Lass es regnen
4 Splitter
5 Aurora
6 Phoenix
7 Am siebten Tag
8 FFA
9 Der Wille
10 Alles was glänzt
11 Wasser zu Wein
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added:05.02.2018
Very strength of the music is their ability to mix various styles of aggressive music in song structures. Once you could think they are no more but metal core band which is persistent in most of their vocals, suddenly they strike with some melodic, like-Scandinavian death metal guitars and even thrash metal riffs. There actually is a lot of good, thrashing vibe in their tracks which is how their guitars work. I leave a question mark to some clean and female vocals. I think it could be done better and overall, they just sound better with screams. For me, the maintaining power of this album is their instrumental side which is very entertaining to hear.
The songs sound modern and so is individual approach to music they play. They influences are American death core with dose of progressive metal, also. From time to time Advena uses some electronics but not to relieve music but give it another, like techno- music twist and hint of doom metal. Their songs are technical but they ease it to you, so I do not have to crack their ideas down in my head to understand it. The music throughout is super energetic and I can smell a lot of good blood in the songs. Realitat is a very dynamic album and as Advena still remains as a young band... They seem to have all those boiling ideas in their minds that they want to filter through music and explode the sound of it over your head so it can`t last forgotten. I am going to remember Advena name because it`s a new one for me and they got me under skin with their speed and many times-very amazing arrangements in music.
I believe that Realitat is a first step for them to "catch a big fish" which could be another as good album as this one.
Line up:
Chris Kolias-lead guitar
Daniel Esterbauer-vocals
Dominik Jagenteufel-rhythm guitars, clean vocals
Michael Schmidt-bass
Dennis Stirner-drums
Tracklist:
1 Realität
2 Herztod
3 Lass es regnen
4 Splitter
5 Aurora
6 Phoenix
7 Am siebten Tag
8 FFA
9 Der Wille
10 Alles was glänzt
11 Wasser zu Wein
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added:05.02.2018
