Eye Beyond Sight
The Sun and the Flood
Rating
Style: Death Metal
Release date: 23 March, 2012
Playing time: 46:22
 

This is the second album from the Slovakian band Eye Beyond Sight. It was already released about a year ago, but has now been picked up by Massacre Records. If there would be a competition for most ugliest covert artwork of the year, this one would end in my top ten for certain.

You can expect modern sounding groovy death/thrash. They have a dirty old school sound with a lot of groove and Tamas Patonyi's vocals have a rough and biting sound. If you mix Grave (Soulless) with Sepultura you should have an idea. For the general thrash fan it all sounds a bit too heavy because there is a big portion of death metal involved. Several songs have the usual breakdowns that bring the necessary variation.

After listening to the entire album I am not inspired to listen to it again immediately. The songs don't differ enough and that makes it a little boring. My favorite track is "God's Bite" and that is because the vocals sound the most brutal and sickening in that track. A nice album, but not one that will end in my most favorite records of the year list and that is because it is too mediocre and not special enough.


Tracklist

01. Sick Society
02. Redemption
03. From Stars to Scum
04. Self Possession
05. That Hurts
06. God's Bite
07. Blast
08. Screams From Your Childhood
09. We Care
10. The Sun and the Flood

Label: Massacre Records
Distribution: Target (Denmark)
Artwork rating: 1/100
Reviewed by: Reinier de Vries
Date: 15 March, 2012
Website: www.myspace.com/officialebs