Band's List Death Metal Cut The End Dawn's Death to Dusk

Hailing from sunny Barcelona, Spain, Cut The End finish 2011 offering us their first full-length album entitled “Dawn's Death to Dusk" after a first EP "Beauty Is Inside" released back in 2008. Though correctly labeled under Death Metal, Cut The End mixes in another flavor (and no, it's not Flamenco a la Impureza) which makes their music quite unique.

Indeed, the basic Death Metal structures are mostly absent and are replaced with some kind of Post-Metal leaning on a sludgier side which sometimes develop into a more fast-paced facet closer to the Death Metal origins of the band, shown also in the growled vocals.

For those wishing to get some more musical references, let’s just try to picture bands like Pelican or Minsk going into a more Death Metal direction. And if you wanted to be even more specific, try picturing French band Eibon with a lot less Doom Metal in the music. Needless to write at this point that Cut The End do not rely lyrically on gore imagery or war anthems but develop rather a more introspective side which has the effect to create immersive mind landscapes, an effect added by songs that are quite long (only five songs for 45 minutes of music and three of them going over 10 minutes).

With such a description, you might end up thinking it’s boring music, something like Hipster Death Metal? Well, you’d be surprised. Sure it’s not the crushing marches of Bolt Thrower or the fury of Hate Eternal but there is a blatant groove even for such "intellectual" music. Much of it thanks to the progressive structures of the compositions but mostly due to the talented and technical drumming of Carles Perez Druguet which breathes life in those songs.

At first, you might feel a bit lost but “Dawn’s Death To Dusk” will soon grow on you despise the originality of it. Obviously if you’re into “TRVE” Death Metal, the pill might a bit harder to swallow but if you appreciate bands like Explosions in the Sky or Isis or any of the aforementioned acts, chances are you ought to check this right about now by contacting the band members.