Suffering Winds

Fuck! What a surprise! I think SOLEKAHN is the best French band I've heard in a long time, if they are able to do that just in a MCD, what the hell will they be able to do in a full-length album? They play raw and brutal old school Death Metal in the vein of VADER but mixed with some other influences. For example the song 'In Dementia' sounds more oriented to the Norwegian Black Metal in the vein of the first IMMORTAL album, with the same rhythmic drums and dark riffs! The sound of the album is fucking raw, but everything sounds as it should. What a pity that this is just a MCD, because you will surely want to listen more and more. If you enjoy listening true evil and dark music you will love this album, it's full of brutality and aggressiveness, but at the same time is well played and it's quite varied. The booklet is extremely professional and luxurious, including lyrics and a very original cover that I've liked a lot. If they work hard I'm completely sure that they will have a place together with the best bands of the new wave of old school Death Metal that is devastating Europe now. Remember the name of this band, because they can be one of the most interesting promises of modern brutal, dark and raw Death Metal.

Originally written by myself for Xtreem Music

The first thing I noticed is their nice CD cover that procures somekind of a sorrow induced Heroic fantasy mood. This French band playing a style cast in the Black death metal realm recorded this MCD in 5 months (between july and november 2001).
One could notice some fast ripping Black metal like riffs in the vein of EMPEROR 's 2nd full length album (for the fast riffs). Some Blasting Death Grind moments, some tremolo riffs and their vocals sounds like VADER at the time of their 2nd album.
Notice the drummer has got good skills and includes some nice beating ideas here and there.
Some other Black metal influences can make think about some stormy IMMORTAL touches (that are cast into Death metal riffs) while some leads or slow breaks (with long played notes) are a bit in the vein of the latest EMPEROR's releases. There are some strong obvious MAYHEM influences for a pure and tormented raw black metal touch.
Some epic like ideas, some more heavy metal/ Black metal riffs and fast Black metal riffs reminds me a lot of IMMORTAL on their "At the heart of winter" CD.
To conclude: This band has got some really interesting ideas, big fans of the last IMMORTAL/ MAYHEM releases who don't dislike Death/ Grind bands like VADER may find SOLEKHAN cool.