HexHorn
Waking Of Death
Via Nocturna Records
Katowice in Silesia is a home town of legendary Kat&Roman Kostrzewski but new generation of musicians turn their own ideas and efforts into music expression&territory which is far beyond to what Kat has ever done before.
Hexhorn was formed in 2014 by 2 friends of other band Hegeroth. Now, as a 5 piece squad, they celebrate their debut album which is just out worldwide.
From the very first minutes it becomes very clear that Waking Of Death cultivates tradition of death metal but not reinventing the wheel at all. Their approach is up to their skills as musicians which still is on basic level but there are certain songs and longer moments when their melodic death metal synchronizes with brutal fragments pretty well. This album sounds raw in every aspect including vocals. It`s very OK to hear some typical death metal guitar shredding but maybe not as sinistrous as I would expect it. But the band seems to be more focused on creating atmosphere, heaviness of the songs, adding as many melodies as they can. That`s why in more parts of the album the tracks are semi paced which gives them a space and time to achieve decent dynamics. My though is that they are much better with melodic bits and pieces but it`s still very good to have death metal roots as a force driving the album.
Of course, as they are young band I could hear some influences from Scandinavian metal in their music but bands like Dismember, Amon Amarth plus some other stuff could not accurately reflects Hexhorn as an entity from there which they are not.. You know, they sound very as band from Poland which is always a good thing, ever!
This is fine debut album but the band needs to skills up everything they do and have a better interaction with their murder weapons (read:instruments) so their killings could unleash the beast on the next album, I believe.
HexHorn is:
Edward - voc,
Maziak - guitar,
Bene - guitar,
Fen - bass,
Bila - drums.
Added 15.09.2016
Review by Slawek Migacz
Hexhorn was formed in 2014 by 2 friends of other band Hegeroth. Now, as a 5 piece squad, they celebrate their debut album which is just out worldwide.
From the very first minutes it becomes very clear that Waking Of Death cultivates tradition of death metal but not reinventing the wheel at all. Their approach is up to their skills as musicians which still is on basic level but there are certain songs and longer moments when their melodic death metal synchronizes with brutal fragments pretty well. This album sounds raw in every aspect including vocals. It`s very OK to hear some typical death metal guitar shredding but maybe not as sinistrous as I would expect it. But the band seems to be more focused on creating atmosphere, heaviness of the songs, adding as many melodies as they can. That`s why in more parts of the album the tracks are semi paced which gives them a space and time to achieve decent dynamics. My though is that they are much better with melodic bits and pieces but it`s still very good to have death metal roots as a force driving the album.
Of course, as they are young band I could hear some influences from Scandinavian metal in their music but bands like Dismember, Amon Amarth plus some other stuff could not accurately reflects Hexhorn as an entity from there which they are not.. You know, they sound very as band from Poland which is always a good thing, ever!
This is fine debut album but the band needs to skills up everything they do and have a better interaction with their murder weapons (read:instruments) so their killings could unleash the beast on the next album, I believe.
HexHorn is:
Edward - voc,
Maziak - guitar,
Bene - guitar,
Fen - bass,
Bila - drums.
Added 15.09.2016
Review by Slawek Migacz