Iliac Thorns
| Iliac Thorns | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Kotka , Finland |
| Genre (s) | Melodic Death Metal |
| founding | 2010 |
| Current occupation | |
| Antti Tani | |
Singing , initially also electric guitar
|
Ilkka Lönnqvist |
Vocals, electric guitar |
Samu Haatainen |
| Jere Harju | |
Electric guitar |
Arto Hannula |
Iliac Thorns is a Finnish melodic death metal band from Kotka that was formed in 2010.
history
The band was founded in 2010 and emerged from the remains of the groups SpinalStrain and Soulhavoc after the breakup. The line-up consisted of the drummer Antti Tani, the guitarist and singer Ilkka Lönnqvist, the bassist Jere Harju and the guitarist and singer Samu Haatainen. In 2012 the Finnish label Deathtone Records released the EP Prevailing Shapes of Hell . The following year, the debut album IT followed via Inverse Records .
style
Keith Joshua Ham from metal-temple.com wrote in his review of IT that the band played Melodic Death Metal on it, including elements from Black Metal and a few from Punk . It sounds like these elements have been strung together and not mixed together, with the group sometimes sounding like Old Funeral or Blodsrit . Christian Wilsberg from stormbringer.at also reviewed the album and also assigned it to Melodic Death Metal, with no "keyboard paste in connection with guitar tinkering like with CHILDREN OF BODOM or modern, softened and smoothly produced pop like the newer IN FLAMES ", instead, it contains "hearty old-school bang with melodic guitar leads". The first song on the album sums up the style of the rest of the album, the more straightforward, in which “ blackened old-school death metal deeply rooted in the late eighties and early nineties ” meets melodic guitar leads in the style of At the Gates . The songs are also occasionally groove- heavy and occasionally use punk elements. The "high nagging" is reminiscent of Cradle of Filth at the time of The Principle of Evil Made Flesh .
Discography
- 2012: Prevailing Shapes of Hell (EP, Deathtone Records )
- 2013: IT (album, Inverse Records )
Web links
- Iliac Thorns at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography. metalfromfinland.com, archived from the original on June 29, 2013 ; accessed on July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ ILIAC THORNS - FINLAND. metallian.com, accessed July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Keith Joshua Ham: Iliac Thorns - IT. metal-temple.com, accessed July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Christian Wilsberg: Iliac Thorns - IT. stormbringer.at , accessed on July 30, 2017 .