![leeches – a plague in the heart of light [demo]](https://www.vm-underground.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Leeches-A-Plague-in-the-Heart-of-Light-Demo.jpg "Leeches – A Plague in the Heart of Light [Demo]")
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- Band(s): Leeches
- Label(s): Fucking Your Creation Records
- Release Format(s): Cassette, Demo
- Release Year: 2020
- Review Date: July 25, 2020
Greece is one of the most consistent pillars of Black Metal. Home to bands that crafted a particular shape of Black Metal, one that still lingers in today’s ever populated scene. Bands like Rotting Christ, Varathron or Necromantia, with their sound, created a unique sound and vision of the genre, that still holds.
Leeches, assembled in 2020 by musicians from Greek Black Metal bands like Sørgelig, Dødsferd or Grab, crafted a very “close to the roots” – whatever that really means – Black Metal release. Stripped down of futile and useless gimmicks, the band shows that they are aware of how – in their perspective – the genre should be displayed. Cold and straight to the point, this is how I envision Black Metal, or at least this fringe of the genre, and Leeches does walk down that path. Guitar cutting through the vocals, the drums setting pace… as said before: no gimmicks, no beating around the bush, this is straight on Black Raw Metal. Production wise, it is what we were expecting: lo-fi enough to keep the overall creation buried beneath piles and piles of dirt and bones.
5 tracks, more than enough to showcase that these Greeks keep the ancient rules – if I may say – of 90s Black Metal. (DanielP)
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Fucking Your Creation Records
- Country: Greece
- Style: Black Metal, Doom Metal, Other
- Links: Homepage, Bandcamp
