DREAMS OF DEATH

Flots are back and again are away from MetalBlade and are with Crash Music . This record opens with an intro called “Requiescal” and then into the killer track in “Straight To Hell”. We hear Flots doing Black Metal to the max in the main riff of this song. Then again the traditional Flots thrash is here as with the upfront metal sound. Ah this brings me back to the first two records and some of High. So damned catchy and it is so underground. “Parasychotic” is very in your face underground and has a catch and hook. True Flots til death. “Bleed” takes us down the mellower Flots road. It isn’t them doing METALLICA it is FJ doing it with the great singer in Eric AK that they always have had. He is so underrated. He should be up there with Geoff Tate and the likes even though he has more rasp. I’d guess that hole in his lung healed well.

“Look In His Eyes” picks up the straight mid-thrash. Oh some nice heavy riffs ends this. “Childhood Hero” does have a very cool catch to it I must say. I’d guess the label picked this as the single that should do it? “Bathing In Red” starts down that more acoustical road and one of Flots best alternatives. They can make it mellow with power and make you look at a band like DAYS OF THE NEW and laugh. Remember that the Arizona air can bring out the more sounds of their souls in the music they play.

“Nascents Morimar” throws more tweaked out sounds with the flange turned up. There isn’t really lyrics just spoken word. It is definitely more of an instrumental. “Out Of Mind” goes back to the more brutal sides of this record while it pounds it to an end. They have a hidden track here that is more like a conclusion of the record wrapped into one. I loved it. It wasn’t overproduced and sounded so homegrown. Flots til Death! It is worth the wait for records like this.

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