Description

One of Austria’s most eclectic and risk-taking black metal bands, Korova was formed in the city of Innsbruck by Christof Niederweiser (vocals, guitars, keyboards) in 1990, oddly taking their name from the Russian words for “the cow.” After several years composing and rehearsing the band released its debut, A Kiss In The Charnel Fields, in 1995. It would take another four years before they returned with their second album, Dead Like An Angel. This was the record that really put Korova on the map, thanks to its awe-inspiring mix of death, black, gothic, and progressive metal, performed with a flair for grandiose theatrics. Vocalist and main composer Christof Niederwieser delivers his lsd-infused candy songs in a Van Gogh’s sky and often sounds like an altered madman sweetly singing hypnotizing children songs on a dark, bluish melting sea beach from planet Mars. It is not techno music but it’s got groove and swing; it is not futuristic keyboard noise but there are always passages of subtle electronic strangeness in all corners; it is not typical metal music but distorted guitars are riffing forth manias and more raging growls, screams and vocal screeches abound everywhere. It is basically Korova and nothing else and any and every experimental metalhead should lend an ear to this strange avantgarde masterpiece, as this is pure metal insanity at its peak. Who the hell is playing the lighting-fast pianos on this one? Completely genuine!

Track list:
1. Europa In Flammen
2. Strangulation Alpha
3. Our Reality Dissolves
4. Trip To The Bleeding Planets (Unto The Light)
5. Dead Like An Angel
6. Echoworld Caravans
7. Der Schlafmann Kommt
8. Tantra-Nove-HyperCannibalism