CARNAL RAPTURE BREAK NEW GROUND IN METAL. SERIOUSLY.
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 at 3:30pm by Vince Neilstein
Italian experimental metallers Carnal Rapture sent us their latest 5-song EP several months ago, and though I only just got to listen to it recently… HOLY SHIT!
The first good sign was the design of the CD itself: one side is completely silver and one side is completely black (but not silkscreened — the plastic is actually black). After inserting the CD into my computer silver-side down as I would most CDs, my computer spit that shit right back out at me. Having the black side be the side with the audio on it? METAL!
But most importantly, Carnal Rapture’s style of metal is like nothing I’ve ever heard before. Seriously. And you know we hear a LOT of shit (I mean that in both senses of the word “shit”) here at the MS Mansion. Carnal Rapture certainly take inlfluence from progressive extreme metal bands like Cynic and Gorguts, but theirs is a much more modern, refined, completely new, and yes, much heavier sound. And while their music is certainly “technical” to be sure, it doesn’t veer anywhere near the modern tech-death “weedily weedily” fests that newer bands like Gorod and Obscura peddle (I love these bands too, but I’m just sayin’). Carnal Rapture take things way more in a decidedly jazzy direction… heavy as fuck jazz, naturally. The only current band I’d even moderately liken them to would be Intronaut, specifically that band’s early material. This is music that’s heavy, heady, progressive, technical, jazzy, artful, concise… pretty much everything I look for in a new band.
So upon opening and listening to this stellar gem of a record, I emailed the band’s vocalist and guitarist Emilio Trillo to ask his permission to post a track. Here it is, “Precious Time,” the EP’s opening number. I hope you like it as much as I do. If you’d like to hear more, visit Carnal Rapture on MySpace.
Carnal Rapture – “Precious Time”
-VN
wow i dont know what to say. its pretty cool!
This would really benefit from better production. The musicianship is pretty unreal tho.
I agree on both counts. Amazing playing but it could stand some better production and the vocals were more grating then engaging to me.
Of course this is just their EP and natuarlly the LP would be polished up a bit.
glad we can agree on something.
I’ll also add that they might want to consider changing their name…that shit is kinda stale.
Yeah and to be honest I’ve allready come up with a way to mock them with that name
if I decide not to like them……Anal Rupture!!!
Besides that I think Carnal Rapture would be a much better album title then band name.
If they sold popcorn at gigs they could go with Kernel Rupture.
The name sounds like the Thrash/Death band Carnal Forge.
Great stuff! Hope to see a better sounding LP… the music is just great!
The song was badass. I agree with jason about the production though.
This is the extreme shit we need talk about. Diabolical & Great.
PD. …why don´t post about “Der Geistertreiber” the new video of BELPHEGOR?? stupid flim -hymn to walpurgis Night- in the mourning???? jajajaa.
Vocal production needs work. Music is good, but it almost seems too….carnival-like. Get rid of the little keyboard “doo” that constantly repeats, and it’d be a lot better.
This is like the first time in weeks you’ve suggested a an awesome band to check out xD
Thanks guys
If you like non-conventional extreme metal, try out another italian band: Infernal Poetry. Here’s their myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/infernalpoetry
Hmmm, too noisy… compared to Carnal Rapture they are just modern metal
yeah this is also a good band. check them out.
I can’t believe you got this promo! I had to buy mine! And I too was incredibly confused by the black side. I e-mailed them asking if they had weird copy protection or something that was making them not play.
they remind me a little bit of stingking lizaveta or atheist at times
am I the only that finds i problematic that shit has more than one meaning?
PS1 games making a come-back! Metal games!
Fuck yes, one of my happiest moments was when I discovered that I could put a playstation game in a computer and rip the soundtrack off of it.
I still have the Twisted Metal games on my Ipod for that reason.
Wow… good stuff. I’m intrigued.
Um, sounds exactly like old Candiria. Nothing new here at all. And I don’t mean that in a… ‘I read Blabbermouth, so therefore I know everything about metal’ kinda way, I mean… it sounds like old Candiria. That is all.
It reminds me of a much, much less spastic Ephel Duath, and that’s not such a bad thing.
OMG. This is amazing. Are these guys the successors to atheist and cynic’s death jazz crown? Must… Buy…
wow this is garbage, you guys have the worst track record on whats good and what sucks
All hail the god of music! Only he can tell what is good and what is not in the music world. Dipshit.
Proof that original doesn’t equal good.
IMO.
Of course.
Thanks.
Meh, the only talent there is the bassist. Guitar is flat out BORING.
death ephel duath
The real question is: What would Ziltoid think?
Yes, because Ziltoid is the almighty judge of all things EXTREME and we must all follow his example instead of developing our own musical tastes. I couldn’t care less what other people think about a band. If I think they’re good, I’m gonna fucking support them.
Hmmm…this is quite an interesting band. On one hand, the vocals are just boring. I’m reminded of the guy from Epica in terms of intensity, and that’s a REALLY bad thing. But, they sound like they could easily turn into Gorguts-styled vocals, and that’s a REALLY good thing. The production is obviously a bit on the low side, but that’s expected for a debut EP–I won’t hold that against them at all. The musicianship itself is actually quite interesting. It seems like a direct blend of Gorguts and Cynic as described, just without the intensity of either. I do, however, see a LOT of potential for this band. Proper production and a bit more intensity (and maybe a bit more variety) could really put this band easily at the top of the underground metal scene, but for now, the five songs show great potential and stand great as they are.
And I like that *weedily weedily* is catching on, haha. I’m even happier that none of that is here.
This gets Ziltoid’s approval.
Wow……kind of a cross between Primus and Carcass’ last album….
How come Metal Sucks doesn’t ever do any coverage on Unexpect? Oh, and here ya go, a play on words involving Metal Sucks and Austrian Death Machine: Jewish Metal Blog Machine. Speaking of which, didn’t you guys insult Austrian Death Machine before? And Vince even took the piss out of As I Lay Dying during that Noisecreep podcast. Now, all of a sudden you’re all up on Tim’s jock.
And another completely awesome band that I just thought of that gets very little coverage on here is Necrophagist.
Sounds to be a little bit influenced by one of my favorite bands “Martyr”. Similar in the jazzy characteristics and strong bass guitar.