01. Death Portent
02. Unsummon
03. Evil Art
04. Subverse
05. Icevoid Nemesis
06. Doom Seer
07. Pulsar
08. Blood Ripple
09. Once Flesh
10. Crypternity
Luka Milojica (Guitars/Vocals/Drum Programming)
Canadian death metal solo-project started in 2009 by guitarist Luka Milojica.
First emerged in 2010 with the demo 'Plagueswept', then returned in 2012 with the full length debut release ‘Spellbook’.
Described as “a blackened tome of blasting distortion” 2015’s ‘Demononicon’ was unleashed.
During this time he has performed one man shows and had a number of tracks on compilation cover mount CD’s Antichrist Magazine (2013), Zero Tolerance (2013) and Slowly We Rot (2014). He also gained a lot of positive press coverage from fanzines and online pages.
Now he has returned with ‘Exomancer’ and once again is unleashing his take on Blackened Death Metal, drawing on his many influences to create some original music.
Blasting off with ‘Death Portent’ we are thrown into a bleak and technically proficient world of complex drum programming and stunning guitar playing, vocals are minimal and full of menace and the production is perfect.
It has to be said that ‘Unsummon’ is more of the same, with the exception of a slightly doomy introduction and onwards it goes.
Now ‘Blood Ripple’ offers a little more in the way of vocal delivery and the overall feel is that of early Thrash/Speed metal that we all used to love before it sold it’s soul to the commercial markets.
We end on ‘Crypternity’ whilst remaining in the same vein in has timing changes and a slight off rhythm which gives the song some real added interest.
At just over 30 minutes this sticks to the music, no intro’s and outro’s, no filler, just the music delivered right to your ears.
For me this is at times reminiscent of early Morbid Angel or Dimmu Borgir, it certainly has the potential to reach a wide variety of fans of numerous heavy metal sub genres.
Rating 9/10
For Fans Of: Darkthrone, Satyricon, Dissection, Behemoth, Naglfar
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