PYRAMIDO – Fem

Label: The Sign Records
Releasedate: 27.09.2019

PYRAMIDO was formed in the southern Swedish city of Malmö and the year was 2006. Their music can be characterized by heavy, distorted and slowed down sounds. This album, Fem, is their 5th. They have been very productive with EP’s as well. It’s a sludge and doom metal and I usually like it. This time, pyramido didn’t click with me.

This album didn’t make me like it more after I heard it again and again. It usually happens that I get used to music the more I hear it and in this case, it didn’t happen. There is a general fuzziness that is not used properly. Honestly, it makes a band look cool in a bar. Not cool in an album. The production is weak. And this is their fifth album, so I would consider that it was intentional. Also, the constant screaming vocals are not a proper growl. It’s not because you screech that metal is stronger. I would have felt asleep if there wasn’t for that.

But not all is bad. I don’t like the vocals, I hope that is established, but the instrumental work in the fourth track “Fänrik källbacks sägner” is cool. Especially the drums variations and the guitar looseness at some point got my attention. Other than that, the album is pretty repetitive and doesn’t stand out.

Still, I would like to see them in a bar. That might change the way I perceive the band and the album. It happened many times before. Fem might work there and I have to give credit to their effort making this album. The fact is that this album didn’t catch my ear. I understand that it might be my taste since it’s their fifth album and everything is highly subjective. They must be doing something right for other people with their vocals and their musical composition is not that bad. But please fix the production. And keep making album covers. This one is very cool.

Line up:

• Viktor Forss – Drums 
• Henrik Wendel – Guitars
• Dan Hedlund – Guitars 
• Ronnie Källbäck – Vocals 
• Dan Widing – Bass

1. Född till att springa
2. Levande döda
3. Utvägen
4. Fänrik källbacks sägner
5. Insikten
6. Fem

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