Ελληνικά
Last Updated on 11:31 PM by Giorgos Tsekas
Genre: Crust
Label: Self-Released
Country: Australia
Year: 2016
Cello has a unique ability to express a rare melancholy in music. You can of course achieve that result with other instruments, but the sound of it has something special. And when this melancholy is combined with rage the result is usually interesting.
Threskiornis have released their demo “All Empires Fall” this year, a quite interesting album with both male and female brutal vocals and some moments with clean vocals and sound. A release full of emotions. where they managed to combine that cello uniqueness with classic d-beat/crust rhythms. The emotional character of their music is precisely why it is hard to describe their sound. To do so in a clinical way would be unfair for the band.
Their lyrics follow the usual patterns of the genre and express anger born from the destruction of the planet (“I Choose a World”), the use of power by the “strong” on the “weak” (“Land Stolen”) and the tendency of those that don’t really have knowledge on a subject, to express an opinion in a pompous way even when the data around them show the exact opposite (“Quiet Man”). And of course there is a song about the need for a revolution (“Silence”).
The demo’s cover blends perfectly with the band’s name. Threskiornis, the bird – not the band, gazing over human skulls and (for me at least) signals the final victory of nature over the corpses of humanity’s urban culture.
Loyal to the typical anti-capitalist philosophy of crust, they offer their music via bandcamp and the price is defined by each fan of the band. If you like this kind of music go ahead and listen to them, you will not be disappointed. If you are not familiar with the genre, but you like the combination of strong emotions, specifically melancholy and anger, in music give it a chance and the listening experience will be its own reward.
4/6
