Tracklist:
1. Celestial
Shade
2. Rivers of
the Nether
3. Ghost Star
A year is a long time in music. And the emergence of five bearded Greeks,
from Patras, from imitating Opeth and Septicflesh to producing their own work, proves it. According to the band’s own
biog, Asphodel were established as a cover outfit in spring 2012 before trying
their hand at original composition. Their
debut demo, Graces of the Fall, now showcases that work. Whatever the humility of their own self-descriptions,
Graces of the Fall is certainly more than a simple demo, its three tracks clocking
in fully twenty minutes of head-banging, dead-ringing glory. And Asphodel themselves, from their musical
mastery to their black-death-gothic-progressive genre mashup, are much, much
more than a simple cover band.
