ILLNATH “Third Act In The Theatre Of Madness” (Nov 2011)
Label: Pitch Black Records (CYP)

TRACKLIST:
01 – Third Act
02 – Scarecrow
03 – Lead the Way
04 – Snake of Eden
05 – Shorthanded
06 – Spring Will Come
07 – Tree of Life and Death
08 – Fall of Giants
09 – Vampiria
10 – Kingship Incarnate (CD bonus)

RISE…AND EMBRACE HER

Narrenschiff out, then a big challenge…
The third album from the Danish ILLNATH, is breaking here each concern: it is Heavy. Donald Duck was charming but the blonde Mona with her rasp voices innovates, imposes a new era.

The first song, the “Third Act” (Cradle of Filth meets Alice Cooper…), large and ambitious, we (yes we can !) imagine an orgy between a thinner Dani (Cradle…), a still more blonde Angela (Arch…), a withdrew and released Luca (ex Rhapsody…) from his “hollywood metal” straitjacket and yet, a sexy-pierced Alissa (The Agonist) … imagine the baby and call him ILLNATH.

Modern Dark-Death-Black-Sympho (and can continue as long as the palette is large), Gothic in its moods and Black in its activity, these young modern musicisians deal with many influences and incorporate fully their time (as do the Avenged Sevenfold, for example), far away from Kalmah, to let finally appear a real footprint. Signed in Pitch Black Records, ILLNATH illuminates this year’s end with its highly addictive metal, which never bores us, but it’s a constant musical prowess.

A song drawer where shared demonic solos  or keyboards as frequently asked monsters, guttural or scream voices as if a dying pig was allied with heavenly refrain, wobbly piano and dusty violin, on the detour of a crypt to imagine Siebenburgen typing Theatre of Tragedy. Unlikely but devilishly successful.

“Snake Of Eden” is a new and seductive beauty (Ravens fly away, wounded…). “Shorthanded” grooves with panache, and is located within a beautiful melodic line, a pure moment of delight. There is a heart behind this wall of sound, of the hot organic matter as a body for the soft caresses, mein Gott, this music is desire, a sexy desire. Pete Falk, guitarist who has the gift of ubiquity (it is around magic!) to the hailed abnegation is certainly not aware of but he has a twin. It should be known as Herman Li…Festival of dazzling and intelligible solos, it propels in the stratosphere the splinters of silver inspired, romantic music and  lovely, progressive darkness in his intension to take the listener into a world of delights (“Tree Of Life and Death”, “Fall Of Giant”, vindictive poured lava). Dark Violet, these lips bite you, but you like it… penetrate my chinstrap and drink me… this (Vampiria) Black Metal Symphony is simply majestic. Each piece is unique in its words and execution, small beads of blood flowing between your heavy breasts, this body belongs to me, forever…

ILLNATH radiates, ILLNATH is sublime and affects the hoped consecration.
The past is dead and buried. Under rubble, dies Harlequin. With Mona (imperiale) mutation took place. To the tragic Sénéque to the satirical Tchekhov, this “Third act in the Theatre of Madness” offers the extent of his manifest: just touch to the sublime.

ILLNATH is the unthinkable success because with this little CD, this insignificant “pancake” of polycarbonate, this tiny speck of life, these artists perform their fate.
This obscure object of desire will brand you. For Ever-

Reviewed by MEL DELACROIX