Genre: Death metal, death-doom
For fans of: Rotting Christ, Necromantia, Nightfall The album arrived at a time when the band was already playing live frequently and had begun to move away from the slow death-doom sound of their debut toward darker, more melodic forms. Christos Antoniou’s keyboards and samplers take on a bigger role, while Sotiris Vayenas’s lyrics revolve around the inner world and doubt — something that fits the title perfectly. The 2013 reissue brought the work to a new audience, together with the corresponding reissues of their following albums. Already here the element that would become the band’s trademark is visible: the balance between the weight of death metal and an atmosphere that recalls dark romanticism more than anything else coming out of Greece at the time. Our take The second album shows a band that doesn’t repeat itself: darker, more melodic, with keyboards taking a starring role. “Esoptron” is the album where Septic Flesh found their identity. The album on YouTube:
