Immortal SoulsMordecai
Divine Wintertime / Through The Woods, Towards The Dawn
(1999)
Reviewed by Marco Povervest
This split CD offers you some extreme music from Finland. Both bands have four songs on this CD with a total running time of 35 minutes. Immortal Souls brings melodic heavy metal with a deathgrunt which sometimes leans over to shrieking. But this ain't blackmetal. The basis is heavy metal but very melodic with leads all the time. A song like Morning Mist could have been a Schaliach tune. Only Christ Mass has some clearer black leanings than the rest with some parts in that style. This music is written for two guitarists with one playing the rhythmstructures and the other playing leads. However, they have only one guitarist. Mordecai is more in the black metal vein. The first song, Infinity Of Creation, has that black metal style of vocalizing. This is more atmospheric stuff with a hollow sound to make it feel dark. More pure black metal is Exhortation where the band is in full style with fast playing, aggressively and dark. This album is not renewing but there are some good sounds on it. I'm interested in how the full-length projects will be of these bands.
Other coverage for this album
HM Magazine #77Reviewed by Doug Van PeltAahh, another split CD! This one comes from the very fine folks at Little Rose Productions, who have a great ear for excellent metal. Since these are the days that metal is almost completely untouched by the major labels, you have to look to indies like these guys for the good stuff. These two bands deliver. Immortal Souls are 90 mph, tight, and hallow screeching their way to the metal hall of…The Phantom Tollbooth 1999Reviewed by Josh SpencerWhat is it about Scandinavia, and Finland in particular, that allows for such a beautiful bonding of melodic distortion and wintry atmosphere? Whatever it is, Little Rose's third major release is another triumph in their quest to bring Christian metal up to speed with the rest of the genre. Two of the stars on the From Kaamos...To Midnight Sun compilation--Immortal Souls and Mordecai--are here…Dead Zine 1999Reviewed by GrindboyWoah!!! Thank you, Little Rose Productions. Here they have given us a four song EP each from two fantastic Finnish bands, Immortal Souls and Mordecai. Immortal Souls comes first, and I don't even know how to make this review reflect the excitement I have about this band. I haven't been this stoked over a band in at least a year. Death metal, distinctly European, but without equal. Technical, but…Dead Zine 1999Reviewed by D_ListerWhat happened to Immortal Souls? Same three guys, same band name, same country, but man what a sound change! Gone are the slow and sludgy (but really good for the genre) doom styled songs. They are replaced with strong, melodic death metal. From the beginning of their first track, to the blazing ending of their last track this band leaves you beaten to a pulp. Delivering a distinctive brand of…Similar sounding releases
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