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Supuration jest francuskim zespołem death metalowym, który powstał w 1990 roku. Po serii mniejszych pozycji, w 1993 roku, wydali płytę „The Cube” w małej wytwórni Reincarnate, która prawdopodobnie powstała specjalnie w tym celu. Zaopiekowała się nią również nasza rodzima Loud Out Records, co zaowocowało dodatkową wersją kasetową.

„The Cube” zaczyna się śmiercią i jest opowieścią o błąkającej się i próbującej odnaleźć sens istnienia duszy. Treść poszukiwań odwzorowuje dość klimatyczny death metal, w którym znajdzie się i melodia i doomowy, mroczny posmak, a także nieco progresywności. Supuration nie pędzi gwałtownie, nie rozgniata na miazgę, a właśnie stara się wyciągnąć duchowość ze swojej muzyki. Potrafi rozpłynąć się w wolniejszych dźwiękach i wyciągnąć z nich melodyjne riffy jak w „Through The Transparent Partitions”, gdzie ten główny motyw jest najbardziej wpadający w ucho, podobnie jak powyciągane solówki w „The Elevation”. W utrzymaniu atmosfery pomagają też, pojawiające się tu i ówdzie, czyste i smutne wokale, które nadają naszej wędrówce trochę dodatkowej tajemniczości i postrachu związanego z niepewnością sytuacji. Już w pierwszym, po intrze, „The Elevation” w ten właśnie sposób skonfundowany bohater pyta: „Will I ever get rid of my angusih? Will my soul be blessed?” Te właśnie rozterki będą już nam towarzyszyć do końca. „4TX. 31B” w jest smętnie wyrecytowany w całości. W większości natomiast mamy do czynienia z ryjącym, zdartym growlingiem, który ma w sobie wiele z doom metalu, tak jak częściowo cała muzyka.

Na swoim debiucie płytowym Supuration prezentuje ciekawy splot gatunków, nadając swojemu death metalowi tą pogrzebową aurę mającą na celu dopomożenie duszy w rozwikłaniu egzystencjonalnych zagadek. Jednak błąkanie się po zamkniętym w sześcian obiegu przynosi niewiele pocieszenia. Na końcu wiemy mniej więcej tyle co na początku, a album kończy się pytaniem „Where Am I?”

Wujas


It's not often that you find an album that can really suck you in and take you on a journey. Supuration's The Cube is one of those rare cases, where the music is well done and each track possesses a similarly eerie atmosphere, a feeling of being trapped inside a cube. It's a fantastic effort, a sound that transcends the constraints of a genre and delivers plain old good music.

It's apparent from the beginning that this isn't a typical death metal album. There are slow, mid-tempo, and some slightly up-tempo sections, but you never get the feeling that this is a blistering death metal record. Instead, you get pretty simplistic, almost pop-like melodies, subtle drum patterns, and shifts between growled/screamed vocals and strange, and effect-laden clean vocal harmonies. Mind you, it can get pretty heavy and headbangable, but that isn't the aim of this music. No, there's a certain majestic, graceful feel to each track. Every guitar piece, every drum pattern, every vocal line flows effortlessly from section to section, retelling a story passed down from generations, a futuristic token of the past. I can't praise the vocal work enough, it isn't technically impressive, but what it adds to the music is indescribable. Tracks like The Elevation and The Enlightenment gain so much from the chorus-soaked voices and deep growls, it feels like a long distance radio transmission, coming from some deep region of space. This band understands that being progressive does not mean going completely overboard with showboating, every part has its place and connects to the overall picture like that missing puzzle piece.

I decided to knock off 5 points because, even though I can't find a fault with the album, I don't hold the album in the same place as I do an Altars of Madness or a Nespithe. But as an original body of music, Supuration delivers in every possible way. The re-issue gives you three bonus tracks that fit just as perfectly as the previous songs, an astounding accomplishment considering how different most bonus tracks feel compared to the album material. If you can purchase a copy, I really encourage you to do so. It's a mystery how this band is overlooked by many metal circles, but for those who take the time to give this a spin, you'll experience a tale unlike any other.

Dark Mewtwo1


Back in 1993. The death metal scene is still very big all around the world. In France, Loudblast, Agressor, No Return and Massacra already are active. Coming from the same area as Loudblast come another promising band called Supuration. This band has been around for more than 3 years, has released lots of demotapes and vinyl EPs and even a demo CD. 'til there this was just another death metal among a billion of death metal bands but "The cube" arrived.

Coming in a nice digipak (including lyrics) which was not really common in 1993 when the crystal box was still reigning, Supuration, with its brutal death/goregrind name provides us a musical UFO, far away from usual death metal stuff. The music is still even and even death metal with heavy guitars and growls but there is also clear vocals and a lot of original guitar parts. The music is very hard to describe, it's dark, oppressive, catchy and very original... Most of all it's cold. Colder than most of black metal bands. Tempos are slow or mid, the band prefer crushing your brain from the inside, not by exploding your ears with tons of blasts. One of the only influence that can be heard here is Voivod. The cyber futuristic spirit of Voivod is here but in a personal version. Listen to this band and if you can say "oh, this really looks like XXX", then call me ;-)

Like all the albums of the band (under this name or under the name of SUP), this one is a concept album. Like all of their concepts, this one is about sci-fi. At the beginning of the album, we can hear someone who is speaking and just after that this person commit suicide. Then the whole album is about what is happening to him (or her, we don't know yet at this moment...), what he (or she) is seeing and feeling. in 1993 and 1994, during their european tour supporting Suffocation, the band used to play the whole album as it is on the CD, in order to "tell" the whole story.

13 years later, I still listen this album really often. This CD is now very hard to find but there was a remastered version with some bonus tracks which was released a few years later. This one can be found more easily.

If you're looking for something very original, give this one a try !

VS Sheb



..::TRACK-LIST::..

1. Prelude 0:57
2. The Elevation 5:10
3. Soul's Speculum 1:10
4. 138.JP.08 3:03
5. The Cube 5:49
6. Through the Transparent Partitions 3:58
7. Spherical Inner-Sides 0:53
8. The Accomplishment 7:15
9. 4TX.31B 4:35
10. The Dim Light 5:33



..::OBSADA::..

Ludovic Loez - guitars, vocals
Fabrice Loez - guitars, vocals
Thierry Berger - drums
Laurent Bessault - bass



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