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Band Name: Sitra Achra
Demo Title: Ebola Joy
Band Members: -aL- (vocals and screaming, instruments and machines), York (voices and screaming of guitars)
Location: Czech Republic
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    • Kefka X's Review:
    With a 6-year career, two previous demos and a song on a Rammstein tribute album, Ebola Joy return with a third demo, Sitra Achra. Ebola Joy is best described as ambient, electronic/gothic doom. Then add in some of the darker, mid 80's Depeche Mode (especially Black Celebration), and you're close. And I like this era of Depeche Mode a lot, so that's a good thing. :-D

    This demo is a thematic nine tracks of darkness and despair. The production of the album has a strong echo in it that gives you the feeling of being in a giant hallway of a church. The vocals tend to stay clean but stray over to growls on occasion (singing along to the chorus in "You have no choice" is fun.) The rhythm guitars have a very doomy-feel to them, much like those found in the early 90's gothic metal scene that Type O Negative and My Dying Bride perfected. The guitar solos have an agonizing wail to them that really strike down at the bottom of your soul. The lyrics of the album pretty much describe the theme and the mood of the music (example: "sometimes I feel like I am empty/my heart is breaking into thousand pieces/sometimes I feel my blood is black/like the pain itself being in my soul"). Listening to Ebola Joy gives you the same feeling as sitting on a white circle surround by nothing but darkness.

    If you're looking for something refreshing and a good change from most of the doom you're listening to, check this out. I can't stress enough how depressing of a band this is. This is a bit more accessible than most doom out there, and should attract the attention of metalheads and goths alike...unless you've been listening to nothing but Reign in Blood on repeat for the past 15 years and refuse to listen to anything not of that speed.

    One quick note: the demo's front cover is the same as the classic Neurosis album, Enemy of the Sun.
    4 out of 5

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