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Artist: SUPRA PLAZMA
Album: Hysteria In Galaktica Satania
Year: 2005
Since my work started with this webzine, I got to know
quite some cool stuff from Russia. If my memory doesn't
fail me, Xe-None was the band who I did the first
interview with, and sooner or later bands like Golden
Age, Digimortal and Vergeltung joined the list of
Russian bands on our page. Right here we have another
Russian band that is new to me. Supra Plazma is a two-piece
hailing from Kaliningrad, who released their 'Hysteria
in Galaktica Satania' release in 2005, eight years after
the birth of this project. It contains 11 tracks, which
include some of the weirdest I have seen lately. They
describe their music as 'Blackened Cosmic Thrash Metal',
which is always good to awake some curiousity.
After the intro, the release kicks off with 'Dark
Satellite Of The Planet Earth'. It's a nice uptempo
track, with futuristic sampling and keylines and modern
powerful guitarlines. The grim vocal lines give the
track a little black metalish attitude. 'Angel Of
Darkness' has black metal guitarwork and great, cold and
atmospheric keylines. It switches from powerful uptempo
parts to heavy midtempo parts, without losing the dark
atmosphere. 'Black Hole In Galaktica Satani' opens with
orchestral keylines, to be followed by some kind of
Russian folklore tunes. After, a thrashy black metal
track appears that has atmospheric guitarlines,
recogniseable vocal lines and uptempo programming. The (weird)
folklore tunes return in a small intermezzo. The next
track is blessed with the wellknown title 'Cosmic
Shakhid Destroyer'. It combines the forces of black and
thrash metal, all mixed with a futuristic approach. 'Atmospheric
Saturnium Atheists' is a more gentle track, with classic
keylines, wellplaced electronic samples and protounding
vocal lines. Despite the modern approach, it has some
old school touches hidden in the guitar solo and the
song structure. 'Gate' comes up next - finally a
'normal' title again. It comes with a black metal
attitude, mixed with despair vocal lines and
surprisingly fresh electronic intermezzo's. 'In My Head'
grabs back to the thrash influences with the uptempo
parts, but gets more experimental within the black and
gothic metal genres with the more gentle parts. 'The
Fish' is again a more gentle and old school song, with
wicked guitar solos and easy going programming works.
The vocal lines sound a little weird, like it has been
sung through a megaphone. At about 3/4, the song shows
an uptempo, thrashy part. 'Hysteria' is more
experimental, with chaotic vocal lines, wicked
guitarwork and EBM influences within the FX works.
'Coma' is the final track of the release. It switches
from midtempo black metal parts to more uptempo thrashy
parts, mixed with extravagant vocal lines.
Supra Plazma is indeed a band that can't be put away
within the borders of just one genre. They clearly show
their originality when it comes to songwriting, and they
manage to bless each song with very powerful riffing.
The only problem with the album I have is the dusty
production, which is a pity really because with a better
production more details will be hearable, and I am
certain that this band has more to offer than the final
rating for this album.
Vote: 77 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Shamania (Introduction)
02. Dark Satellite Of
The Planet Earth
03. Angel Of Darkness
04. Black Hole In
Galaktica Satani
05. Cosmic Shakhid
Destroyer
06. Atmospheric
Saturnium Atheists
07. Gate
08. In My Head
09. The Fish
10. Hysteria
11. Coma |
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