ARATIC – To The Early Grave

June 14, 2013 Dan Skiba Album Reviews, Reviews 0
ARATIC - To The Early Grave
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Violent Journey Records
Release date: June 14, 2013

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Aratic is a Finnish, 4-piece comprised of youngsters to the music scene. Their debut: To The Early Grave, contains 9 take no prisoners hard-hitting tracks. With song titles such as “Satan’s Witnesses,” “Puritanist Of The Black Light,” and “Lobotomy Christianus,” along with the favored semi-demonic shout delivery by vocalist Henri Virolainen, Aratic could easily fall into Old School Black Metal categorization (a la Venom). Aratic’s form of Thrash/Death/Black Metal is musically rousing, but the production does the band no favors — their biggest strength (the music) is drowned out by Virolainen’s vocals, which come through too high in the mix.

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  • Dan Skiba

    Dan is a former partner at Metal Express Radio, and also served as a reviewer, photographer and interviewer on occasions. Based out of Indianapolis, USA he was first turned on to Hard Rock music in the mid-1970s when he purchased Deep Purple's Machine Head as his first album. He was immediately enthralled with the powerful guitar sound and pronounced drumbeat, and had to get more! His collection quickly expanded to include as many of Heavy Rock bands of the time that he could get his hands on, such as Ted Nugent, Judas Priest, and Black Sabbath, to name just a few.

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