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Band
Antares
Title
Made In Fear
Type
LP/EP
Company
Independent
YOR
2005
Style
Death
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4/22/2005 - Review by: Timmy D
Fairly competent hybrid of technical death metal
Antares - Made In Fear - 2005 - Indy Release

Track Listing
1. Devil's Gift
2. Mists of Avalon
3. Made in Fear
4. Neurotic Child
5. Infatuation
6. End in Amon Hen
7. SDIFOM
8. Till the End Starts
Antares plays a fairly competent hybrid of technical death metal, made a bit easier to swallow by incorporating Gothenburg melodic-death sensibilities and syrupy keyboards. Five or six years ago, an album like this would have had me spraying my shorts. However, this style has become so run-of-the-mill that this doesn't hold much interest for me. Not to say this is a bad album, and Antares have plenty going for themselves musically. I just think bands like Cenotaph, Scholomance, and Theory in Practice have this niche covered, and there really isn't any more room left for bands of this ilk...


--Timmy D. 04.23.05




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Made In Fear
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Timmy D4/22/2005
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