Music: Black metal/thrash
Country: Lithuania
Website: www.myspace.com/dissimulationit
Cool Songs: As Jusu Prakeikimas, Kol Viskas Niekur
Ledo Takas has unleashed more blasphemous black metal from the Eastern block of the world. DISSIMULATION hails from the steppes of Lithuania and plays a mixture of Celtic Frost/Darkthrone power riffing, old school Norwegian black metal that most closely resemble SATYRICON, and raging thrash metal. These styles are nothing new in the black metal scene, but the group adds a most-needed freshness and originally to their sound.
The most obvious influence on Prakeikimas comes from Celtic Frost. Just like Frosts monumental album To Mega Therion, Prakeikimas opens with powerful, barbaric orchestrations. As Justu Prakeimas sounds as if it were directly lifted from the Conan The Barbarian soundtrack with muscular horn sections and epic choirs. The DISSIMULATION crew assimulates the symphonic rhythms of the intro into blasting black metal. The group bridges speed with groove by breaking down into tumbling breaks that Celtic Frost played so famously, right into full blown Frost power chords. DISSIMULATION could, like other bands have been know to do, show no sense of originally and take a free ride from the back of Celtic Frost, but the group changes the tempo and style enough to remain creative and interesting. Even though the track has changed its appearance time and time again, DISSIMULATION still comes back to the rhythm maintained on the heroic intro.
The second track (listing tracks by name is quite taxing due to being written in Lithuanian) is a trashes with a good amount of intensity. The opening track rolls with a crunchy, gallop fitted just right for banging your head. The music breaks with the drummer lightly tapping his cymbals before heading directly into more kick ass thrash in the vein of old school Metallica. The vocals through out the album are of a mid-range black metal harshness that really brings to mind SATYRICONs front man, SATYR. The non-Celtic Frost, diabolic grooves also recall SATYRICON. The string-warping mixed with mid-paced crunch of the third track illustrates the SATYRICON influence.
DISSIMULATION changes their approach and tempo enough to make Prakeikimas a good listen. The Celtic Frost influence could easily bring about a comparison to DARKTHRONE, but the band puts enough original touch on it to only get a slight comparison to the classic Norwegian band. Also, because DISSIMULATION opted for a more polished sound most of DARKTHRONEs Celtic Frost days, the power rhythms work much better. All these elements combined with catchy riff writing makes for another good album to add to your list of black metal albums to check out from the Eastern block of Europe.
note: 7.8/10
Tracklist
1. As Jusu Prakeikimas
2. Suteikim Jiems Kancia
3. Ju Septynetas
4. Omega Et Alpha
5. Kol Viskas Niekur
6. Karo Ugnys / I Dausas
Total playing time 41:06
Line-up
Venomous – Bass, Vocals
Stabmeldys – Drums
Nekrofagas – Guitars
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