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Tracklist:
01. Overture [2:20]
02. Purify Your Soul [5:02]
03. Quartering Alive [3:59]
04. Nameless Forever [3:47]
05. Ingratitude [5:34]
06. By Truth, By Love [4:08]
07. Psalm [4:58]
08. Words [3:48]
09. Don't Be So Full Of Pride [2:57]
10. You Aren't Possessed Yet [4:42]
11. Hope [3:23]
All lyrics and music by: Robert 'Litza' Friedrich, Tomasz Goehs & Tomasz Dziubinski
All arrangements by Litza & Tommy
Produced by Tomasz Dziubinski for Metal Mind Productions
Engineered by Piotr Madziar
Assisted by Woytek Kurkowski
Mixed by Piotr Madziar & Litza
Recorded and mixed in Gielda Studio, Poznan
Cover artwork by Jerzy Kurczak
Cover idea by Litza
Personnel:
Litza - vocals, lead guitar
Aras - lead guitar, backing vocals
Lemmy Demolator - bass guitar, backing vocals
Tommy G. - drums, backing vocals
In 1990 a polish band called TURBO was writing a material for their new album... but Wojciech Hoffmann, the leader of the band, threw out all of the other members and started to write the new songs from scratch. Litza, Lemmy Demolator and Tomasz Goehs found themselves alone, with some almost done, new songs. So they got a new guitarist and named their new band Creation Of Death.
The album starts with a nice, tension-building intro, sounding a bit like a combination of industrial and classical music. When it comes to an end a guitar joins and the title track starts. Some nice solos, but it's a bit too slow... The chorus isn't bad, but on the whole this track isn't anything special. Then comes "Quartering Alive", one of the best, if not THE best song on the album. It starts really energetic. The parts of the drums are good. The lyrics are about abortion. After it comes "Nameless Forever". It starts really nice, the drums are the best on the whole album, but near the end of the track appear some really strange, unnecessary guitar parts. The next track is "Ingratitude", a slow and heavy, but melodic piece with some nice guitar solos. The track ends with a part played with an acoustic guitar. Then starts "By Truth, By Love". The beginning of this song doesn't sound too good, but then comes a nice chorus and a really great solo. The track would be one the best of all in this album if not the most crappy vocals on the whole album, and tragical keyboards in the slow part. The next track is "Psalm 69". It sounds a bit like Obituary. Nice track, but the lyrics were tragically translated into english from a polish Bible. In addition, the guitar solos sound like crappy melodies from a really old computer game. Then comes "Words" with some good growls on the beginning, but then we again hear this weird something-that-sound-like-growls-according-to-the-voclist-but-it-doesn't. The solo in this one is tragical, and the riffs are so-so. Then we hear "Don't Be So Full Of Pride", the fastest song on this album, except for the intro. It has not bad drum parts, good riffs and a really awful vocal part (with a vocal effect) in the middle. The next track, "You Aren't Possessed Yet", is the worst. Just a catastrophe and the solo is nothing but shit. The end of the track is a bit better, with some clear guitar, but the whole track is a tragedy anyhow. The last track, "Hope", is slower, contains some good soloing, and is one of the "in and out" type of songs.
Purify Your Soul contains some genetically clear death metal, placed somewhere in between Vader and Unleashed. There are some really good songs, especially "Purify Your Soul", "Quartering Alive" (with a really catchy chorus!) and "Nameless Forever", but they are almost lacking the thing most necessary in death metal - brutality. The lyrics are christian, so it wouldn't fit, if they would play their music really aggressively, but playing extreme metal without the obligatory brutality and anger sounds really weird... But if the lyrics would be changed, and the music was played by, let's say, Morbid Angel, this would be a really nice album... Another thing that I will pick on is the vocals - a bit like early Peter from Vader, or late Chris Barnes, but without this "roar" feeling, if you know what i mean. The only member of the band that actually did a good job is the drummer.
The album overall is rather weak, but if you like death metal, I think you would like it anyway. (Predator667, metal-archives.com)
Artist: Creation Of Death
Album: Purify Your Soul
Released: 1991/2000
Label: Under One Flag / Metal Mind Records
Catalog: MMP CD 0111
Genre: Thrash/Death Metal
Format: EAC-APE-CUE-LOG-HQCovers
Extractor: Exact Audio Copy v0.99pb3
Codec: Monkey's Audio 3.97
Compression: High Lossless
Total Time: 44:44
Ripper: SurowyTato
01. Overture [2:20]
02. Purify Your Soul [5:02]
03. Quartering Alive [3:59]
04. Nameless Forever [3:47]
05. Ingratitude [5:34]
06. By Truth, By Love [4:08]
07. Psalm [4:58]
08. Words [3:48]
09. Don't Be So Full Of Pride [2:57]
10. You Aren't Possessed Yet [4:42]
11. Hope [3:23]
All lyrics and music by: Robert 'Litza' Friedrich, Tomasz Goehs & Tomasz Dziubinski
All arrangements by Litza & Tommy
Produced by Tomasz Dziubinski for Metal Mind Productions
Engineered by Piotr Madziar
Assisted by Woytek Kurkowski
Mixed by Piotr Madziar & Litza
Recorded and mixed in Gielda Studio, Poznan
Cover artwork by Jerzy Kurczak
Cover idea by Litza
Personnel:
Litza - vocals, lead guitar
Aras - lead guitar, backing vocals
Lemmy Demolator - bass guitar, backing vocals
Tommy G. - drums, backing vocals
| SPOILER! |
In 1990 a polish band called TURBO was writing a material for their new album... but Wojciech Hoffmann, the leader of the band, threw out all of the other members and started to write the new songs from scratch. Litza, Lemmy Demolator and Tomasz Goehs found themselves alone, with some almost done, new songs. So they got a new guitarist and named their new band Creation Of Death.
The album starts with a nice, tension-building intro, sounding a bit like a combination of industrial and classical music. When it comes to an end a guitar joins and the title track starts. Some nice solos, but it's a bit too slow... The chorus isn't bad, but on the whole this track isn't anything special. Then comes "Quartering Alive", one of the best, if not THE best song on the album. It starts really energetic. The parts of the drums are good. The lyrics are about abortion. After it comes "Nameless Forever". It starts really nice, the drums are the best on the whole album, but near the end of the track appear some really strange, unnecessary guitar parts. The next track is "Ingratitude", a slow and heavy, but melodic piece with some nice guitar solos. The track ends with a part played with an acoustic guitar. Then starts "By Truth, By Love". The beginning of this song doesn't sound too good, but then comes a nice chorus and a really great solo. The track would be one the best of all in this album if not the most crappy vocals on the whole album, and tragical keyboards in the slow part. The next track is "Psalm 69". It sounds a bit like Obituary. Nice track, but the lyrics were tragically translated into english from a polish Bible. In addition, the guitar solos sound like crappy melodies from a really old computer game. Then comes "Words" with some good growls on the beginning, but then we again hear this weird something-that-sound-like-growls-according-to-the-voclist-but-it-doesn't. The solo in this one is tragical, and the riffs are so-so. Then we hear "Don't Be So Full Of Pride", the fastest song on this album, except for the intro. It has not bad drum parts, good riffs and a really awful vocal part (with a vocal effect) in the middle. The next track, "You Aren't Possessed Yet", is the worst. Just a catastrophe and the solo is nothing but shit. The end of the track is a bit better, with some clear guitar, but the whole track is a tragedy anyhow. The last track, "Hope", is slower, contains some good soloing, and is one of the "in and out" type of songs.
Purify Your Soul contains some genetically clear death metal, placed somewhere in between Vader and Unleashed. There are some really good songs, especially "Purify Your Soul", "Quartering Alive" (with a really catchy chorus!) and "Nameless Forever", but they are almost lacking the thing most necessary in death metal - brutality. The lyrics are christian, so it wouldn't fit, if they would play their music really aggressively, but playing extreme metal without the obligatory brutality and anger sounds really weird... But if the lyrics would be changed, and the music was played by, let's say, Morbid Angel, this would be a really nice album... Another thing that I will pick on is the vocals - a bit like early Peter from Vader, or late Chris Barnes, but without this "roar" feeling, if you know what i mean. The only member of the band that actually did a good job is the drummer.
The album overall is rather weak, but if you like death metal, I think you would like it anyway. (Predator667, metal-archives.com)
Artist: Creation Of Death
Album: Purify Your Soul
Released: 1991/2000
Label: Under One Flag / Metal Mind Records
Catalog: MMP CD 0111
Genre: Thrash/Death Metal
Format: EAC-APE-CUE-LOG-HQCovers
Extractor: Exact Audio Copy v0.99pb3
Codec: Monkey's Audio 3.97
Compression: High Lossless
Total Time: 44:44
Ripper: SurowyTato