STYLE: Hard Music RATING OUR PRODUCT CODE: 23310-12781 LABEL: Solid State TND84322 FORMAT: CD Album ITEMS: 1 RELEASE DATE: 2007-05-04 RRP: £12.99
Reviewed by Jeremy Williams
Christian death metal has always been slightly controversial - should Christians be involved in something that so purposefully sets out to be dark? Or, on the other hand, does the light of Christ shine even brighter? Atlanta-based Becoming The Archetype belong in the second camp, out to prove there's no genre of music that can't be redeemed. And they don't pull any punches either. Their second album is raw, blistering and as heavy as it comes, machine-gun drums and screamed thrash vocals about fire, being on fire, lakes of fire and other fire-related themes. It is essentially a concept album about Hell, and it largely works although some of the melodramatic instrumental breaks are a little pretentious. Becoming The Archetype have added a technically brilliant guitarist in Alex Kenis since their debut album, but it's his melodic vocals that make the biggest difference to the line-up, allowing for sudden unexpected harmonies or vocal interludes. Progressive Christian death metal? Long may it continue.
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Posted by Eric Reno in Canada @ 05:34 on Apr 26 2017
I know this is 10 years too late, but I just got into this
album again and felt like I should expand on the lyrics. I'm
thinking that the "fire" in the lyrics are representative of
Jesus; and the ice (which is encasing souls) is sin, which
has trapped us. The Balance of Eternity talks about how at
the presence of fire the people in the ice begin screaming,
and the fire is used to free those that accept it. And in
the song Second Death we see how the 'narrator', if we shall
call it that, tried to make his own fire but it always burnt
out. Whereas this great fire than had fallen does not. Those
are just my thoughts. 10 years after the fact. Lol.
I know this is 10 years too late, but I just got into this album again and felt like I should expand on the lyrics. I'm thinking that the "fire" in the lyrics are representative of Jesus; and the ice (which is encasing souls) is sin, which has trapped us. The Balance of Eternity talks about how at the presence of fire the people in the ice begin screaming, and the fire is used to free those that accept it. And in the song Second Death we see how the 'narrator', if we shall call it that, tried to make his own fire but it always burnt out. Whereas this great fire than had fallen does not. Those are just my thoughts. 10 years after the fact. Lol.