(Melodic Death/Doom Metal) InnerFire - Of Legends & Allegiance - 2008, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

This is a strange story from a strange band who has managed, despite all the reverses, to release a very good album. I started from the end of my review today, so you all know that this album really worths... Anyway, let’s take things from the beginning.
Alin Petrut (guitar,vocals) is the founding member of Innerfire. His musical career started in Romania where he created Gothic, a dark/death metal band, which has been well received by the local metal crowd. Alin moved in Belgium in order to evolve his music by changing the line up of the band along with their name. So Gothic changed into Ali(e)n and finally into Inner Fire. For unsolved reasons, Alin left Inner Fire and went back to Romania, leaving the band without its founding member. This fact is fatal in most of the cases, but in this one, it had the opposite effect.
So, here we have Inner Fire, a band that was formed in Belgium at 2003 and their music is a quite nice mix of black, death metal with a dark/gothic approach. The recording took place at the famous Berno studio in Sweden and Berno Paulsson (Amon Amarth, The Haunted, Defleshed) is responsible for the production (and I think that it is rather unnecessary to say something about the quality...!).
"Of Legends And Allegiance" has the whole package! Slow rhythms, killing blast beats, very nice brutal vocals and guitar riffs that will take your breath away, all are here! Compositions are filled with dark emotions and despite their speed, a doom/gothic feeling is always present. "Bloodred Failure" opens the album and this you must hear it loud. Fury, madness, melancholy and deadly melodies constitute "Of Legends And Allegiance". Inner Fire was a surprise for me; check them out and find out what I’m talking about...!
(c) Vassilis Karogiannis /www.metal-invader.com/