HYPNOS

The sixth full-length studio album by cult Czech Experimental Death Metal band.
After 2017's "The Whitecrow", Hypnos followed up with "The Blackcrow". Cute?.. "The Blackcrow" follows in the same direction, but it's not quite as trippy and experimental and, when they go for that, it's obvious that the band got better at it, so the songs on the album fit together a lot more this time around.
Overall, it's Technical and Experimental Death Metal that doesn't blast everything in its path, rather going for slow to mid-pace with the occasional speedier songs. If you like your Death Metal more intricate, as opposed to a pedal-to-the-Metal pound fest, then this album is likely to be of interest.
The production was done in a way that the band uses the rough and brutal instrumental tunes of the past, but taking advantage of modern recording devices. And this combination reaches a good result, because their music sounds aggressive and raw, but in a defined way that everyone can understand.
Interestingly, they end the album with a rerecording of "In Blood We Trust", the title track of their 2000 debut album, which really shows how far away from the original sound Hypnos have come.
"The Blackcrow" is a great album, which shows that Hypnos has a lot to offer to Extreme Metal fans.
Fiend Enterprises/Monster Nation, 2020 (MN 043). Made in Czech. First press.


Tracklist:

Side A
1. Vox Irae 01:04
2. The Blackcrow 04:13
3. Afterlife Disillusion / The End of Idolatry 04:25
4. Dawn of Their Halcyon Age 04:59
5. Plunged into Cacophony / Procession to Babylon 04:40

Side B
6. Vae Victis 06:19
7. Culte de la Raison 05:33
8. Liquid Sands 05:11
9. In Grief / Too Old to Cry 09:51

Total playing time: 46:15 min.

The second full-length album by Czech Death Metal band.
Hypnos was founded by Bruno, bassist/vocalist of cult Krabathor, right after he left the band in 1999. The second founding member was drummer Pegas, known especially for his great drumming on Krabathor “Lies” album from 1995 year. Hypnos has begun to be one of the leading Death Metal acts from Czech/Slovakia and attacked European stages immediately.
Exactly one year after the debut, uncompromising Czech crew is back with a sophomore full-length, paving the line of classic European Technical Death Metal, started by Vader and their former band Krabathor: no unnecessary thrills, just ten cuts of solid direct energetic ferocious music, invoking pure headbanging marathon!!
Mastered at legendary Morrisound studio in Florida.
Morbid Records/CD-Maximum, 2001/2002 (CDM 0702-920). Made in Russia.


Tracklist:
1. Raven's Opera D'Moll 0:40 
2. Crystal Purity Of Treachery 5:16 
3. Evil Awaken 3:23 
4. Regicide 3:32 
5. Journey Into Doom 4:54 
6. Endorsed By Satan 3:01 
7. Spider-Werk 3:45 
8. I Am The Wind 5:07 
9. Lost 1:33 
10. Heroism Of New Era 4:12
Total playing time: 35:23


Samples: http://www.last.fm