Within the Sphere of Ethereal Minds, by Sarcasm

Within the Sphere of Ethereal Minds

by Sarcasm

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John Mexico Swedish Death Metal is such a beautiful thing. Sarcasm delivers everything that you would expect from the Swedish scene. Excellent melodies, chugging buzzsaw riffs and great vocal howls. I had never heard of this band until a few days ago. Now I cannot stop spinning this release. Favorite track: From the Crimson Fog They Emerged.

Atanamar Sunyata From a decades old footnote in Daniel Ekeroth’s Swedish Death Metal, Sarcasm ascend to sudden glory. Pitch-perfect, sinister, death-black melodies injected with a massive dose of Dissection. Nasty Necrophobic nuance and the dynamic compositional instincts of God Dethroned. Untouchable riffs thrash, gallop, and swarm under a storm of black-hearted leads...
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Choco Latte Sarcasm had a hell of a time getting to this. That time wasn't wasted since it culminated in this opus of Swedish death metal genius. The acoustic parts aren't overplayed and are a nice addition to that classic sound. Favorite track: Embodiment of Source.

Nokturnal absolutely true to the game. Timeless! Favorite track: From the Crimson Fog They Emerged.

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	1.	Bloodsoaked Sunrise 02:53
	2.	From the Crimson Fog They Emerged 04:22
	3.	Embodiment of Source 05:33
	4.	Scars of a Land Forgotten 03:20
	5.	In the Grip of Awakening Times 03:40
	6.	Silent Waves Summoned Your Inner Being 03:17
	7.	A Black Veil for Earth 08:31
	8.	The Drowning Light at the Edge of Dawn 04:05

about

What a journey it has been. Ok, technically speaking, this isn’t their first proper full-length – ‘Burial Dimensions’ is. Although ‘Burial Dimensions’ was recorded in 1994, it remained unheard in the vaults until seventeen years later and was finally released as a stand-alone album in 2016. Despite an initial short run, Sarcasm produced no less than six demos and went through some drastic stylistic changes in the process, starting with a quite basic gore n’ guts death-metal sound only to end up with some epic and melodic mix of black and death-metal. All of this over the course of only four years… So there was an unfinished-business vibe in the air. No one thought it would take the band over two decades to make it a reality.
After a first, short-lived reunion in 1997, a newly redesigned line-up of the band finally got together in 2015 with Heval, Oscar Karlsson (Defleshed, Gates of Ishtar etc.) on drums who had previously played in the band in between 1993 and 1994, former axeman Henrik Forslund now on bass, Fredrik Wallenberg and newcomer Peter Laitinen on guitars. But as they were getting ready to work on some new music for their forthcoming sophomore album, tragedy struck with the unexpected death of Oscar, whose hard-hitting yet extremely precise style had become a massive part of the band’s identity. After few weeks of disarray, the band vowed to carry on, enlisting the veteran Matte Modin (also from Defleshed, Dark Funeral, Firespawn and so on) who actually was part for a while of Embalmed, Wallenberg pre-Sarcasm band.
Eventually, both Wallenberg and Forslund had to bow out right before the recording, to be replaced respectively by Anders Eriksson, who had previously been part of the band during the ‘Burial Dimensions’ era, and Jonas Söder. Amazingly enough this doesn’t prevent ‘Within the Sphere of Ethereal Minds’ to be a defiant triumph. Actually, it feels as if all those setbacks and personal struggles only strengthened their will to recapture ‘Burial Dimensions’ blazing stand and run with it even further.
While the music of all eight tracks was written by Peter Laitinen, he somehow did find that perfect balance in between that very specific sense of melody that could only be summarized as ‘typically Swedish’ (fans of the early No Fashion records catalogue will know exactly what we mean here), raging speed and brutality. With one foot firmly planted in the mid-90’s and another in the present, Sarcasm is no nostalgia trip but a genuine return to form to that specific mix of black and death-metal, before saccharine riffing and cheesy clean vocals took over and ruined it all. For the melancholic leads of “Embodiment of Source”, they answer with the blast-o-thon that is “Scars of a Land Forgotten” or the epic-to-kill-all-epic that is the eight minutes plus long “A Black Veil for Earth”.
It may have taken them a long time but it was worth the wait. Hail Sarcasm!

-Olivier Badin

credits

released April 28, 2017

Heval Bozarslan – Vocals
Peter Laitinen – Guitars
Anders Eriksson – Guitars
Jonas Söder – Bass
Matte Modin - Drums

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