Taetre

"Divine Misantropic Madness"

I had the great pleasure of experiencing this awsome Swedish band, at a gig at the 1000fryd club in Aalborg, Denmark last year in October. It was a hot and sweatty night I will probably never forget. The 1000fryd club in Aalborg is a very small venue with a capacity og app. 100 people - barstaff and techie included. You can get very close to the stage - so close that it's possible to count the freckles on the bandmembers faces - that is, if thay have any.

Enough said about the venue - back to the music. The Swedes seem to have a strong tradition for giving birth to one great metal band after another, and Taetre is no exception. They play both aggressive and brutal, with a high pace that need the most from each member.

Taetres recent release "Divine Misantropic Madness" is released through Danish label Mighty Music, and produced by Andy LaRoque, who is famed for being a kick ass six stringer with another Danish act - King Diamond, who took up black metal many years ago in Mercyful Fate.

I must say that Andy LaRoque has done a magnificent job, in producing this album where the music, comes out just the way it's supposed to. All instruments plus the vocal, is well balanced and gives a positive impression of the entire record.

My personal favourite on this album is the seventh cut -  a song with the title "Destroy the Dreamvoid", which beside the impressive pace, also contain a disharmonic passage with a bumpy rythm and a stroke of the same chilling atmosphere, as which is found in good horrormovies such as Blair Witch and Pet Cemetary.

I have hereby proven the fast that "Divine Misantropic Madness"does not get content with short cuts or easy solutions, when composing their music. This album is as good as it gets.

Don't believe me! Then grap a copy of the album yourself. Check out www.mightymusic.dk for info on the band or how to accquire the album. And remember to visit Taetres official homepage located at http://www.taetre.cjb.net

Think of Cannibal Corpse - deduct 25% of the growl, and you have Taetre. Equally intense, violent, and aggressive as CC - and they keep the pace and level of intensity through all 11 songs. Here's no dull moments or songs, that you feel like skipping.  Taetre is highly concentrated metal of the purest kind. And if you're not used to playing music, that reach out to you in a strictly metal kind of way as Taetre do, this is probably not for you - maybe you're better of with some mediocre pop record.

Lindblood doing his six stringer and main growl, Graveyard pounding the barrels, Maggott on alternate six stringer, and D.K doing his 4 stringer and additional howl and growl, "Divine Misantropic Madness" is bound to be a breathtaking alboum, crammed with sharp riffs and pounding drums.