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Reduced price due to hairline marks on the cd

PROMOTIONAL ONLY means issued by record company in very limited quantity and sent to selected Industry professionals ONLY for promotional consideration/airplay. Never for sale and highly collectible releases

German promo cd in cardboard sleeve.

Similar to fellow Switzerlanders Samael and Sadness, Alastis play a deliberate, Gothic-tinged style of death metal with atmospheric synth arrangements complementing the music’s downbeat tone. Over the course of a decade Alastis released 5 full lengths. Where the first 2 albums already hinted at potential, it’s on this third album ‘The Other Side’ that Alastis’ skills fully started to flourish. This is an album that combines both aggression and melody, a worthwhile and memorable symphony of stories told in grand fashion. The songs on The Other Side are mostly mid-paced, well-flowing compositions, with melancholy and yearning as starting points for the song writing. The production is clean, warm and strong, but The Other Side’s real strength comes from the great atmosphere as a whole and its mood swings; between powerful and defiant confidence on the one hand, and dark despair on the other; between dejection on one track and hope for victory on another. A highly recommended beauty in darkness for all lost and dark souls out there, and simply put an essential album within the dark metal subcategory.

Track list:
1. In Darkness
2. Never Again
3. The Other Side
4. Out Of Time
5. Through The Chaos
6. Fight And Win
7. Slaves Of Rot
8. Remind
9. Under The Sign
10. End Or Beginning