Year : 2025
Style : Industrial Gothic Metal
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 131 mb
Bio:
Crematory is a gothic/melodic death metal band formed in Mannheim, Germany in 1991.The band received its earliest recognition in the mid-1990s by touring with My Dying Bride, Tiamat and Atrocity.Much like the latter two groups, the band had begun as traditional death metal, then evolved with an industrial music and gothic metal musical direction on later albums. The band would receive heavy rotation on MTV Germany,and would also make appearances at various extreme metal festivals, including Germany's Wacken Open Air in the years 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2008, in addition to inclusion on Nuclear Blast compilation samplers.The band re-signed to Massacre Records in 2006 after a 10-year stint with Nuclear Blast; Massacre had been the band's first label.Active for over 20 years (with a brief split between 2001 and 2003) they are among one of Europe's longest running gothic metal bands.
Album:
One of gothic metal's most enduring and respected acts, CREMATORY have been a steady presence over the last 30 years. From their beginnings as an unusually gothic death metal band, and albums like seminal debut 1993's "Transmigration", to their ongoing status as one of Europe's most prolific and consistent dark metal bands, they have been hugely important to the goth underworld and a staple fixture at European festivals, while largely operating under the metal mainstream's radar. As a result, the Germans have had little reason to change or to deviate from their meticulously plotted path.CREMATORY have undoubtedly moved with the times, assimilating the baubles and trinkets of industrial into their deathly clangor, and steadily becoming more direct and melodic in terms of their ever-moody songwriting. They seem to be on a roll, too: the band's last three albums have all represented an uptick in potency and polish, with 2020's "Unbroken" and 2022's "Inglorious Darkness" standing out as significant highlights in a sturdy catalogue. That momentum is clearly audible throughout "Destination"; their 17th studio album, and one of the heaviest and catchiest in their history.CREMATORY have experimented with their sound over the years, but its core remains the same. "Destination" opens with its title track, a thunderous juggernaut of industrial metal riffing, air raid sirens and the kind of bittersweet, melodic chorus that the Germans have excelled at in recent times. Inarguably heavier than most of their peers, CREMATORY mastered this discipline decades ago, and "Destination" is full of variations on the same theme, but with more than enough imaginative flair to side-step dreary repetition. There are also several moments that transcend the band's myopic bluster and edge into the realms of deeply classy synth-pop, albeit still with a brutish metal edge. "The Future Is A Lonely Place" is an absolutely beautiful song, hewn from melodic death metal shrapnel, but presented with a lavish, atmospheric touch. Again, the chorus is an absolute monster, and frontman Felix has never sounded so world-weary and crestfallen. Elsewhere, the short and snappy "Days Without Sun" weaves trance keyboards into a pounding, death metal disco, awash with bubbling electronics, and armed with another fearsome chorus hook; "Deep In The Silence" takes the grandiose, pop-goth route, with sweeping synth strings and a whispered vocal that builds to a feverish crescendo with a tearful but triumphant guitar motif, morbid but magnificent; and the pristine thump of "Ashes Of Despair" cleverly combines the militant crunch of AMON AMARTH with the orchestral leanings of symphonic metal, and just the slightest hint of '80s AOR twinkling benignly in the middle distance.Another obvious standout is CREMATORY's electro-metal take on TYPE O NEGATIVE's "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend". Basically unchanged from the original, the German veterans interpretation is simply darker and more muscular than the original, albeit with Pete Steele's lascivious charisma supplanted by Felix's gruff exhortations. Either way, a great song has been treated with respect and taken down a measurably more sinister path.Another strong album from some of gothic metal's most dedicated lifers, "Destination" keeps things black-hearted and as shiny as leather. For CREMATORY, this is a lifelong vocation, and the great work continues.
Line Up:
Felix Stass - Vocals (1991-present) - See also: Stass, ex-Ripping Entrails, ex-Cryptic Carnage, ex-Ab:Norm
Rolf Munkes - Guitars (lead) (2015-present) - See also: Empire, Razorback, ex-Majesty, ex-Tony Martin, ex-Vanize
Oliver Revilo - Bass (2024-present) - See also: Boiling Blood
Katrin Jüllich- Keyboards, Samples (1992-present)
Markus Jüllich - Drums, Programming (1991-present) - See also: ex-Excess, ex-Century
Tracklist:
01. Destination 04:58
02. The Future Is a Lonely Place 04:41
03. Welt aus Glas 04:30
04. My Girlfriend's Girlfriend (Type O Negative cover) 03:43
05. After Isolation 05:45
06. My Own Private God 05:00
07. Days Without Sun 03:28
08. Deep in the Silence 04:25
09. Banished Forever 04:18
10. Ashes of Despair 04:50
11. Toxic Touch 03:19
12. Das letzte Ticket 04:25
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