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10.06.2010

Wafeln - "Born to Fight" Demo 2010





WAFELN - "Born to Fight - Tales of War" (Demo 2010)
Pagan Black Metal - Chile
Available for Free Download
http://www.myspace.com/wafeln
http://wafeln.es.tl

     Ok, this is the first review ever in Elders' Swords, I hope it will bring some good luck. :)
Wafeln is actually Sael, or better said is the personal one-man-band of this Chilean guy named Sael. He started the project only recently, but already managed to release his first Demo EP. I guess it is only available for Free Download and no physical copies were made, that's how I found it. I was just looking on those countless free download websites (don't think any of them are legal...) around to find some material for the first review in E.S.
     "Born to Fight - Tales of War" is composed of 10 tracks and it seems Sael wanted to divide the material in two parts, like he planned this for being released on tape sometime. Actually, from the music point of view there are no differences between the two parts so this may only apply to the lyrical aspect of this release. The music is mostly fast paced Black Metal with some mid-tempo insertions, has a pretty resonable raw and dark sound, not the clearest one around, but at least Sael mentiones that on his website and warn us about it. The Pagan part of this release is given by the lyrical side, the intro, intermezzo and outro are trying to add the Pagan atmosphere in music as well, but it is not enough to really drive you into the atmosphere or better said to create one. Also Sael could add some more variations in his vocals, or at least that's my opinion.
     To sum it up Wafeln is a project that doesn't disappoint after its debut, it actually present us a good musician with real skills on guitars (just check his melodic guitar solos) and composition (although they might sound similar the tracks are not boring at all, you can follow them till the end of this release), an underground project that has the bases to grow in the future.

Kaan

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