By: Johell

Posted: Nov 24, 2005

Plutonium comes from Sweden. The band was formed in 2003 and "Wind of Change" is their first demo which came out in 2004. Four tracks, or let's say a long intro, two real songs and an outro shows to be a mixture of metal that goes from depressive black together with doomy parts and an industrial feeling. All tracks have been composed by J.Carlsson, the brain behind this project.

'Introducing The dominance' is a long intro that opens with drum machine sounds, nice cold strings and some strange talking, makes out this weird intro.

Then follow the interesting 'Where Dead Children Feeds The Streets', the dark atmosphere here is slow, hypnotic and evil as well. The black metal lead on this track is excellent, something like Satyricon or Thorns could be an influence. The vocal is cold and depressive, a real cool track.

'World Wide Vulture' is damn fast and beholds an old-school black metal feeling and nice breaks. The bass is more present and rocks well. The screams are cold and the guitars deliver aggressive lines and a nice solo, well executed, a killer track!

The demo ends with a more industrial and mechanical track where the same sound is repeated on and on again, until it fades away.

Plutonium has interesting ideas and something that captivates the listener, but they need something more: a real drummer to give even more impact to their songs (I don't like the sound of the drum machine). For a first demo, the result is good. I'd like to hear more "real" songs and hopefully a longer demo than the 18 minutes played here, on their next one. Let's see what they will come out with. Yet a band to follow close!

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