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For those of you, like us, who haven’t previously encountered the one-man Armenian project Eternally Scarred, we’ve got what we think will be a big and welcome surprise for you today. The surprise comes in the form of two songs from Eternally Scarred‘s new album Echoes From Beneath, one that previously surfaced and one that we’re premiering today.
The songs are surprising in a couple of respects. The first is that the band has branched out from the stylistic markers of its debut album …Of Wisdom, which led Metal-Archives to label the music Melodic Death/Doom Metal. Those labeled ingredients are still a part of Echoes From Beneath, but there’s now even more going on in the songs, and the ways in which they take new forks in the path are thrilling (and kind of head-spinning).
The other surprise, for those of us who are encountering Eternally Scarred for the first time, is just how “muscular” and hard-hitting the songs are, how well-constructed and “catchy” they are, and how frighteningly intense the vocals become. Make no mistake, these are often grim and moody beasts, and capable of harrowing your souls, but they’ll get your pulse pounding too.
Today’s song premiere is “Stone Cold Blood“. The slow distorted chords that open the track ring like a twisted funeral bell, immediately casting a pall of pain and gloom on the listener’s mind. Those chords morph into a harrowing harmony, backed by a formidable rhythmic punch and a guitar solo that swirls upward to bold, bright heights.
But the song is haunting and disconcerting, too. Eerie, isolated guitar reverberations and frightening guttural whispers surface and re-surface to chill the skin, trading places with those those ominous and imperious chords, and harrowing roars and terrifying screams make a big impact. A different kind of guitar melody also rings, one that hypnotically ripples, but the humongous crashing guitars return again.
Yet there’s still one more facet to this dynamic piece. The pacing launches into a rocking groove, providing the momentum for a magnetic riff that seems to occupy an intersection of Southern rock, stoner blues, and psychedelia. The vocals there are wild and gritty, full of fire an fury. The soloing soars as well, pushing the song’s crescendo to a glorious zenith — though bleak moods return again before the end, thanks to a riff that will keep heads moving.
The other song we urge you to hear is the previously released “Brothers In Arms“. It scars and batters, jolts and jukes, chimes in unearthly splendor, and howls like a wounded beast.
The song will kick-start your heart, but like the song we’re premiering today, it’s wonderfully multi-faceted, dynamic in its pacing, and draws on stylistic influences that go well beyond death and doom. The vocals are again astonishingly intense, and like today’s song premiere, it’s highly infectious as well as emotionally powerful.
Eternally Scarred is the work of solo artist Artak Karapetyan. Compared to its full-length predecessor, the themes of the new album focuses on less interconnected, and less personal stories, and are instead described as “an amalgamation of such topics as insanity, nightmares, powerlessness, corruption, loss, coping with the aforementioned topics, or being overcome by them”.
The album is almost an hour long, and it will be co-released on September 20th by Satanath Records and More Hate Productions. It features cover art by Vladimir Prokofiev from Paint-It-Black Design, and layout by Aleksey Satanath.
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2022/08/03/an-ncs-premiere-eternally-scarred-stone-cold-blood/
Armenian band Eternally Scarred released the album "Echoes From Beneath" in the fall of 2022, and metal is the style explored on this production. Beefy and chunky riffs used in tight and vibrant arrangements is the calling card of this band, with the orientation ranging from a richly applied variety of heavy and through to thrash metal and extreme metal, with occasional drop downs into doom metal landscapes. The vocals tend to be distorted in an extreme metal tradition, while gentler elements comes in the shape of a liberal amount of inclusions of careful and delicate interludes where frail landscapes are explored in a very gentle and sensitive manner. Atmospheric laden overlays of different kinds is a mainstay, and the band aren't strangers to add some post-rock texture overlays to the different parts of their repertoire either. An album to seek out if beefy and vibrant metal with a dynamic and inclusive approach and an atmospheric laden spirit sounds like a tempting landscape to investigate.
Альбом "Echoes From Beneath" группы ETERNALLY SCARRED - это мощное и проникновенное путешествие в царство мелодичного дэта / дум-метала. Проект ETERNALLY SCARRED, созданный в 2016 году в Ереване, Армения, под руководством вокалиста и мультиинструменталиста Артака Карапетяна, сочетает медленные темпы с мелодичными гитарными партиями и сырым звучанием. Альбом посвящен темам безумия, кошмаров и преодоление страхов. Записанный, смикшированный и сведенный самим Артаком, "Echoes From Beneath" является результатом его творческого мастерства. Вышедший на лейблах MORE HATE PRODUCTIONS и Satanath Records , этот альбом погружает слушателя в эмоциональные глубины и отличается неподражаемым звучанием группы. Если вы ценитель тяжелой и эмоциональной музыки, то "Echoes From Beneath" стоит добавить в свою коллекцию.
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Eternally Scarred, a one man band from Armenia, just released their newest album Echoes From Beneath. An album containing both melodic death metal of the swedeath variaty and doom metal reminding me of Officium Triste. One song caught my attention more than the others, our song of the day: Stone Cold Blood. This song stands out as it does not fit either description above. It reminds me a bit of the stoner band Ethereal Riffian had they been more metal and less stoner. There is a certain vibe that deviates from the rest of the album, but somehow the song is really a part of the album. A more relaxed vibe that continues for a few minutes, slowly building up tension. Only to release that tension at the end of the song with a typical swedeath release. The ending of the song connects the song to the rest of the album in a masterful way. Although an essential part of the album in my mind, the song is strong enough to survive on its own.
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