REVIEWS

Eternity Magazin (www.eternitymagazin.de)

(translated from German)

I believe I have found my personal highlight in 2005, and it is delivered to me by a brand-new label from Israel (Totalrust Music). The Americans Wraith of the Ropes play what they call "Horror Metal", however, deliver with "Ada" a great Funeral Death Doom album, that they also do not deny, but refer to the fact that they don't feel stylistically bound, and their next album could sound completely different. With "Ada" they overthrow the listener, in any case, into almost an hour of completely claustrophobic coldness, into an atmosphere of musical power full of dirt and blood, and it seems she could never probably create high speed Metal. Horror is even more than just one sequence, cheap horror-film Samples and highspeed grunts. The music on this album is dirty, raw and psychopathic. One has without fail the feeling here of a purulent soul revealing her morbid desires. This is a genuinely worthy soundtrack for a horror film, and various elements in the kind of the synthesizers they use also seem to relate her inspiration from just that musical genre. The single songs are hypnotic and captivating, the guitars (typical for this genre) are extremely deep and dirty. The singer has an interesting Black-Metallic variation on typical Funeral Doom Grunts which one himself must have heard in order to understand them. Their coordinated lyrics are of exceptionally high, even excellent quality which allow us close on a literary mind behind the overall plan come through absolutely accurately in the music. They are probably constructed, very perceptive and in a far-reaching manner, certainly stylistic and make use of an entire bandwidth of poetic style means. A (morbid) pleasure is to be immersed itself by means of parallel reading of the booklet which allows you even more deeply into the musical world of this sick duet and all the lethargy, hopelessness, loneliness, nightmares and hallucinations to live through this total depression and schizophrenia. Afterwards in spite of all the coldness, in spite of all the ugliness one may not awake at all from this parallel world. The positive general view, by the way, is rounded by an interesting not less dirty, and above all (in the USA) probably sexually very provocative cover artwork. Result: Doom fans blindly take action, but lovers of other extreme genres should also risk an ear.

rating: 6 / 6

25.11.2005 Tim Neuhoff