Ammonal is an Italian Melodic Death Metal band, founded in 2008 by Renzo and Leo, respectively the bass player and the guitarist of the Melodic Death Metal band EarthFlame. After a while the guitarist Andrea joined them and together they started to work at the new project. After some months and some line up changes, Leo became also the singer of the band and in February 2009 the keyboarder Federico joined the line up. By now ready for the recording of the first demo, Ammonal is still looking for a right drummer for the project and is still composing new songs, as ever inspired by Melodic Death, but not shut up by traditional standards of the genre. In October 2009, after a long search, the drummer Moreno finally joins the band and in April 2010 Ammonal records the first demo:“Beginning The End Of Everythingâ€. The band is actually looking for a label and it will play live as much as possible.
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Plunge headlong into a genre-like Melodic Death Metal is not easy. First we go to join a mass group of biblical proportions, threatening to fall into anonymity (Music and nominal), then we should reckon with the power of the band from the cold North, and as coldly, holding the scepter of those that (at least so it seems) really know how to play the melodic Death.
This is another sore point: the incredible and growing number of bands bearing the title of Melodic Death Metal is almost deduct a certain ease in playing this kind, the reasons could be many. I believe that instead of playing melodic death metal is all 'but simple.
One reason that convinces me that this is melodic death is a generally very eclectic and seems willing to forfeit all influences from world music, many bands are an opportunity to take in everything you hear: ill. This attitude, if you wish to call it, determines the insidious and difficult (in the case of Ammonal see "Fucking Blues" trivial and extremely childish).
The Milanese Ammonal are unfortunately not able to avoid this trap.
On their debut album presenting with "Beginning The End Of Everything", 6 tracks for 34 minutes of bitter-Melodic Death Metal who suffer from the 'inexperience and immaturity, art, the components themselves.
The tracks, although they contain good ideas and solutions, in many cases guilty of infantilism: eg keyboard intro of "Beginning The End Of Everything," too symphonic, and in some cases and intrusive; exact same problem with "endocrine Of Submission" , "I Bleed" in many passages seem to go even beyond death metal band to go and render more distinctly black symphony, the excessive breakdown also present in almost all tracks.
To not get bogged down in tedious track by track I would report "Final War", "You'll Never See, You'll Never Know" as the best moments and most relevant of all the 'album.
Unfortunately, we can not say that the evidence before the trial Ammonal is a remarkable, but even that evidence is entirely negative, a band of boys who have matured and, as it should be, must find his own musical path , in the end we are just beginning. So what is a vote of Ammonal waiting, hoping that the good things in this work proved to be harnessed and made to germinate.
"Beginning The End Of Everything"
*demo 2010
1. Beginning the End of Everything 03:52
2. Final War 05:29
3. Doctrine of Submission 06:53
4. I Bleed 06:03
5. Fuckin Blues 05:56
6. You'll Never See You'll Never Know 06:47

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