Genre: Black Metal

Track Listing:

01 The Great Suffering (Intro)
02 Wall of Corpses
03 New World Order
04 Annihilation

Clyson was formed in January 2007 by M.Havumäki and T.Piipponen. In 2008 with the joining of the bass-player Mikko it became a three men strong Black Death Metal unit, which set out on its dark way to crush the boundaries of extreme music. This is their second vessel – the first demo "Prospect Devastation" (read review here ) was recorded in March 2007 and released in CD-R format. Now we deal with the same modest way of presentation – a CD-R in a slim-case with one sheet booklet where one can only decipher the band name, the line up and the track listing. Immediately you get the feeling that there is something evil going on on this disc of plastic.

And I wasn’t deceived in my expectations. This stuff is nourished with hatred for human race – not by chance this release bears the name “Wall of Corpses”. Though frankly speaking the lyrical content is obscure, as the are no lyrics in the booklet – so I’m judging only by the feelings created by the music and by the musicians’ own words in this interview . Well, sometimes a couple of words manage to tear through the cloud of sonic violence – but again these words are usually connected with hatred and destruction.

As for the music – this is raw sounding Black Death Metal with minimum on melodies and loads of hatred. The never ceasing wall of sound is erected by the thick drum layer with lots of cymbals and loud snare drum. Over it you will find the layer of Black oriented guitars with somewhat metallic sound, so that the general soundscape of this recording may be called desolate. Imagine a dark damp room with nothing in it but the black walls, pools of stinking water on the floor and constant drip from the ceiling. You will get plenty of this in the one minute long intro – and after that the merciless mayhem will begin with lots o double bass drumming and inhuman vokills, being in the middle between growls and screams. Mostly mid-tempoed stuff sometimes makes fast spurts to drown you in violence, of which there is no lack on this demo.

Listening to it may be an extremely pleasant experience or those hungry for aggressive stuff, - if your skin is strong enough, you may dare to expose it to the steel rain of this music with scarcely a melody on the whole three songs. By the way, the last song is the most “tender” and “melodious”, if I may apply these terms to Clyson, who care not for tenderness and beauty and wish humanity to descend to its grave as soon as possible.