SO THIS EX DEO ALBUM COULD ACTUALLY END UP BEING REALLY GOOD
Thursday, May 21st, 2009 at 1:45pm by Vince Neilstein
When news of Ex Deo, the new band featuring Kataklysm’s Maurizio Iacono, first began to bubble this winter, I yawned. I’ve always thought of Kataklysm as a solid, serviceable but not especially interesting group, so the prospect of a side-project of a band I’m not especially into in the first place wasn’t all that appealing. But now that new tracks from the Ex Deo debut Romulus are starting to surface I’m being forced to reconsider.
This shit is epic!
For starters, it’s all Ancient Roman-themed. But Pagan/Folk bands are becoming a dime a dozen these days, and Ex Deo actually execute with thick, rich textures and crushing death metal grooves thanks in no small part to the keyboard orchestrations of Blackguard’s Jonathan Leduc. The rest of the Romulus recording lineup is rounded out by other members of Kataklysm and Martyr, with guest appearances coming from Nergal of Behemoth, Karl Sanders of Nile and Obsidian C. of rising Norwegian psychedelic black metal stars Keep of Kalessin. It’s an all-star cast for an album that, at least from the two tracks currently streaming on Ex Deo’s MySpace page, seems like it’s going to be an all-star itself.
Romulus drops June 19th in Europe and June 30th in North America via Nuclear Blast.
-VN
meh…
damn it might as well just be kataklysm, its still 4 of the same members with new bass and a keyboard player added
sounds better then kataklysm tho
Kataklysm rules and so does this stuff. NOMNOMNOM
Romulus is one of the best songs of ‘09. Can’t wait for the album.
im not normally into what most people would call epic, but this is pretty good
Listened to this song over and over again, it’s genius
Kataklysm are awesome. This sounds decent too, I’ll definitely check the album out.
kataklysm without sylvain houde sucks, and ex deo is some of the worst shit i have ever heard. im not just being a dick, i tried to like it and it sucks.
I AM ROMULUS!
Anyone else notice how the singer’s vocals are always just a little bit out of time?
It’s the same on every Kataklysm record…
DRIVES ME FUCKIN CRAZY!