ANA KEFR „The Burial Tree (II)”

Music: Avantgarde Extreme Metal
Website: www.anakefr.com
Duration: 62:24 minuets (14 songs)
Country: United States

ANA KEFR treads the path of Metal only just several years. “The Burial Tree (II)” is their second album. However despite short practice, their music is very developed under consideration of the arrangements. The compositions are very brave. I can say that songs stand in opposition to orthodox approach for creating Metal music. At present I notice the return to old school Metal. But ANA KEFR chooses other direction. The direction leading into the side of modernist Metal, in which the different fusions of sorts of Metal are permissible, and even the incrustations of non-metal music.

ANA KEFR connects the different elements of Metal music in one the whole, viz – the heaviness and brutality of Death Metal, the fury and emotionality of Black Metal with the complexity of Progressive Metal, and rather of Avant-garde Metal. The all gives in total deadly mixture, which I can qualify as Extreme Metal. And therefore we will hear here a lot of subjects, patents, unexpected turns of action, surprises and the oddities manifesting in rich vocals (often polyphonic and extreme – like the growls, the screams, the clean singings and the recitations), in varied parties of guitars (from the heavy and aggressive riffs across the technical serves and the solos till the melodies of guitars) and obviously in compiled rhythms (very variable and wide unbuttoned). However ANA KEFR did not stop themselves on mixing subjects of Metal, and additionally the musicians attempted to plait different accents of keyboards, symphonic insertions and the oriental melodies to their arrangements as well as of different instruments like the clarinet, the saxophone, djembe, timpani, rattlesnake as well as the female singings, creating various melodies, very climatic, outright motifs folk music or classic music and music in style of Jazz. However these non-metal accents belong to minority rather, although they sometimes predominate. And generally the subjects of Black Metal predominate here.

Unfortunately this thematic multitude and the frequent changes of moods cause that you should listen the music with concentration to don't miss some musical element which are really many here… When I undergo aggressive madness then after a while the climatic motifs appear soon, and so I calm down myself and after moment I fall in the whirl of madness. Despite all, ANA KEFR smashes up me completely.

ANA KEFR creates very diverse climate – from darkness, fury and psychotic emotions across majestic and powerful exultations until deep melancholy and mysticism. ANA KEFR presents high class Avant-garde Extreme Metal, and their music sometimes reminds ARCTURUS, BAL-SAGOTH, CRADLE OF FILTH and DIMMU BORGIR.

note: 9.0/10

Tracklist

1. Ash-Shahid
2. Emago
3. Monody
4. In the House of Distorted Mirrors
5. Thaumatrope
6. Bathos and the Iconoclast
7. The Zephirus Circus
8. Jeremiad
9. Apoptosis
10. Parasites
11. Paedophilanthrope
12. Fragment
13. The Blackening
14. The Collector

Line-up

Alphonso Jimenez – Bass
Shane Dawson – Drums, Djembe
Brendan Moore – Guitars, Saxophone, Vocals
Kyle Coughran – Guitars, Vocals
Rhiis D. Lopez – Vocals, Keyboards, Clarinet, Rattlesnake Rattle