Undead Creep attacks once more, this time with
the 7”EP “Enchantments from the Haunted Hills”, which Blood Harvest has just
released, in very small quantity of 300 copies. Well I definitely was hoping to
get some more killer tunes from those Italians, as my enthusiasm and passion
for their music – which I experienced on the demo and killer “The Ever-Burning
Torch” LP - were great. So I definitely wanted to get a copy of the EP, which I
finally did. And I think the EP is already sold out, so if you hesitated to buy
it, then it can be too late now, ha!
Well, the previous releases were nothing more
but a pure old school Swedish death metal worship. The music was filled with
brutal, aggressive riffing, but also with the characteristic melodies, which
some of the old Swedish bands have been developing in the old days and to say
that Entombed, Dismember, Carnage and Necrophobic did not influence the band
would be a lie. But I loved the way those Italian headbangers and graveyard
desecrators managed to recreate the atmosphere from the good old Swedish scene.
And of course “Enchantments from the Haunted Hills” continues to do that, but I
must say that unfortunately the material from this EP is not as thrilling as
the demo and debut full length (and not only because 8 minutes of music is just
so little!!!). Sure, the atmosphere of horror and creepy feeling are still
there; once you hear the intro you’ll start to look around whether the dead is
not coming out of the mist. But this great, classic horror intro goes by and
“To be Condemned” begins. I really have nothing against this song, it is good
enough, with trademark “Indecent & Obscene” era Dismember riffing and one
can surely agree that this song is not far from say “Skin Her Alive” for
instance, but I feel somehow that this track is more mediocre that some of the
previous songs, which Undead Creep created.
And the title track from this EP is maybe more
exciting, I really like the opening theme, with some killer melodic stuff in
there, but then it fastens up into real Swedish brutality… Hmm, it is good definitely,
but again I feel like it could have been better, maybe more memorable… I don’t
know. Don’t think though that “Enchantments from the Haunted Hills” is a boring
and shitty release, as definitely the fans of the old styled Swedish death
metal will like it anyway and personally I also quite enjoyed it, but any
complaints from my side are due to the fact that my expectations from Undead
Creep were slightly bigger, I hoped to get really crushed to death, while I was
only slightly injured. Fuck that, it’s good to have this EP in the collection
anyway, with 300 copies it soon will be a nice rare item in my collection.
Final rate: 70/100
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