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Ceremony of Opposites - The Fear Within
Review by DemonDust on 19/02/'06
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Website: Ceremony of Opposites
Label: independant
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Tracks: 6
Playtime: 22.19
Release: 18-12-2005
In 2003 this Dutch band was formed under the name of Caligatio. The name was changed to the one they’re using now, to imply the fact that their music is a ceremony of musical contradictions. As in hard parts versus soft parts.
 
The music is described to me as melodic death metal. Personally I think they could have left the death out of that, because it never gets really rough. Most of the music is mid tempo or below, with an occasional faster outburst accompanied by melodic vocals, screams and grunts.
 
Now to be perfectly honest, the music bores me as hell, and the vocals suck to be plainly honest. It actually hurts me when I hear the clean vocals. He doesn’t have a comfortable singing voice to listen, and I sincerely doubt that he sings pure all the time. Especially with the higher tones you can hear him struggling with himself.
The grunts are terrible as well. The first resemblance that came to my mind was the sound of a Sunday morning beer-hangover fart, and that’s bad. The only vocals that are slightly reasonable are the screams. They seem to be the only ones that have some power in them and that sound convincing, contrary to the other ones.
 
The music isn’t mixed heavenly at all, but I just have to see through that considering it’s the first recording they’ve made. But if I listen closely to the music I hear a lot of uninteresting compositions that if played faster could occasionally be considered punk. The drums are horrible as well, little more than some poeka stuff and some messy blastbeats is already more than this guy can handle. The guitars gave me that feeling as well.
 
Now I know that this isn’t the most positive review I ever wrote, but this disc is in my opinion way below standards. What I can conclude from this is that this band needs a lot of work before it can impress me.

Line Up:
Marcel Oerlemans – lead guitar, clean vocals, grunts, screams
Pascal Steffens – guitar, grunts
As van Loon – bass, grunts
Sander Jacobs – drums


Track Listing:
1. Victory and Defeat (intro)
2. The King’s March
3. Burning For Eternity
4. Scars Of The Past
5. False Believes
6. The Fear Within
19-02-2006 17:46 - CarpeSiem
vocals like a sunday morning beer-hangover fart, huh. Is that auto-biographic?
19-02-2006 19:14 - Ceremony Of Opposites
Thanks for the review, we're sorry to see you didn't like it much, but that's allright, it's good everyone has got his own opinion after all! We're hereby inviting you to visit some concert of ours, to see if you like that more ;) 

Greetz Marcel

By the way: you can visit our Metalrage profile here and our website is: www.ceremony-of-opposites.com
19-02-2006 19:34 - DemonDust
Sorry man, but I felt it sounded like shit. Can't help it either.
19-02-2006 20:07 - CarpeSiem
Listened to it at must say I agree with DemonDust. I also read other reviews on the net that stated the same points so oviously your demo has some mistakes. Do not feel offended, it's an opinion
19-02-2006 21:32 - Buzzin Hornet
never heard the music but one lesson in the world of music: NEVER, and I mean NEVER, react like this on a review. You almost get free publicity and even negative publicity is publicity. People can form their own opinion and will not use this review to do that. If DD thinks the demo is bad, let him.. he is a wanker!
19-02-2006 21:54 - DemonDust
I'll wank you!
19-02-2006 22:58 - Ceremony Of Opposites
Well I don't mean to talk bad about anyone, but we truely think we did a good thing with this demo and we're very satisfied about it, and to read reviews like this isn't that nice off course.  But still everybody is off course allowed to have his / her own opinion, and we still thank those who review our cd for doing so, because we allways can learn from other's opinins.  

Well to all those who read this review, if you are interested, or wish to find out if it's really that bad, please visit our website, where 2 songs from this cd can be downloaded for free, and let us know how you think about it!  Our website is: www.ceremony-of-opposites.com and also contains a guestbook, forum, mail etc etc.. so don't be shy to let us know how you think about it!  

By the way, we are allready working on several new songs, which happen to be harder than most of The Fear Within, and we hope to be able to record some new later on this year! We also have some concerts in NL during the next few months and are planning to get more later on, so come see how we do it live!  Thanks & greetz, Marcel.
19-02-2006 23:10 - Buzzin Hornet
*listening now*

First thing: It is good to be proud on your demo, you should be 1000% convinced this demo is great. (yes, is said 1000). 

On the songs:
I have to say I agree on several points with DD only I wouldn't have said it like this. But the main reason for the bad comments is the quality of the recordings and the bad production. For the rest it just is not my thing (and it is NO Melodic Death Metal!)
19-02-2006 23:26 - DemonDust
first of all, don't listen to buzzin, he's an idiot. second of all, if I ever see the opportunity to catch you guys live, believe me I will! third of all, don't listen to me either, I'm a 100% (or perhaps 1000%) retard, the only reason I work here is because Buzzin has a thing for my hiney... luv ya hun!
21-02-2006 18:41 - Ceremony Of Opposites
I allways listen to others, everyone's opinion is important to me, and there's allways a chance to learn from others! Well I just edited my first reaction, I'm sorry to react like that and now hope you all can forgive me! 
It's great to hear that you would like to come to one of our concerts, we have now planned 5 for the next few months, so maybe we'll see you there! 
(Actually it is pretty strange to talk English to dutch people don't you guys think? haha) Well whatever, so far for today.. Hope to see you on some gig somewhere!

Greetz
23-02-2006 14:54 - Mat-Core
I'm going to listen to it soon enough. I like mid-tempo death metal... Let's see if DD is right at all

  100 %
24-02-2006 00:25 - Ceremony Of Opposites

I'm very curious about how you think of it, please do let us know!! And be sure to visit one (or more ;)) of our gigs  Greetz Marcel
24-02-2006 18:41 - Mat-Core
Hell yeah,

I saw that March 3rd you are playing in the Little Devil, love that place, played there twice with Haklust. I'll be checking you out then!

greetings
Matko
24-02-2006 19:40 - DemonDust
ah, i can't join you there, i MUST visit Sunn 0))) and Earth in Paradiso. if not, I'll kill myself.
26-02-2006 22:44 - Ceremony Of Opposites
To Mat-core: Indeed we're so much looking forward to that concert, it's going to be great, we're planning to play some heavy songs, so be prepared!  I hope you'll enjoy it. We've never played there, although we come from around there as you may know.. I have been to pretty some other gigs there, and it seems great to play in LD.. 

To DemonDust: too bad you can't be around, hope to see you at some other gig of ours! I do respect the fact you're not there, it's a good reason after all! Have fun there!

Greetz Marcel.
16-03-2006 12:52 - Ceremony Of Opposites
Next sunday we play in 013, Tilburg, together with Ill Fame and Mythlorian, at Metal Matinee! We are about to play our heaviest set ever, and to play it better than ever, so to everyone: be there next sunday! Entry is only €5,-! More info: www.013web.nl and off course www.ceremony-of-opposites.com
05-07-2006 23:32 - Ceremony Of Opposites
Laatste nieuws

 
Ceremony of Opposites speelt morgen 7 juli in HPC Den Haag in het voorprogramma van Blo-Torch.
Om deze mijlpaal luister bij te zetten, zal de Mexicaanse band Dream of Nebiros acte de presence geven.

Ceremony Of Opposites 


23-07-2007 10:18 - Ceremony Of Opposites
Our new album called "Death's Dominion" is now available! This 13 track album is released in may 2007 by Ceremony Of Opposites and contains melodic death metal. This time no more clean vocals..

Listen to 3 tracks of the album on our (new) website or myspace.

 Ceremony Of Opposites
www.ceremony-of-opposites.com
www.myspace.com/ceremonyofoppositesmetal

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