Sarabante-Έρμαια Των Καιρών / Under The Shadows 7" (Man in Decline, 2013)

Sarabante hail from the metropolis of crisis, Athens, Greece and here is their two track seven inch released in 2013 by Man In Decline Records. Sarabante was formed back in 2006 and passed through several line up changes, sometime they recorded some demo tracks, (if i am correct, back in these days there were 3 songs in their myspace) in 2008 they started working on their first lp Remnants which finally came out in 2011, mastering was done by Brad Boatright (From Ashes Rise, Warcry, World Burns to Death, AudioSiege Media etc etc) and was released by Sara Records, (band's own label) on vinyl in 500 copies and later by Southern Lord as cd. And since a label just like Southern Lord picks them among so many dark melodic crust bands that pop up all over the world that means they discovered something extraoedinary in this band. I won't say anyting else about Remnants since there is a shitload of positive reviews about it (just google "Sarabante Remnants review" and a shit of replies will appear on your screen). Έρμαια Των Καιρών / Under The Shadows 7" came out in spring of 2013 on 300 copies on black, 100  mustard yellow and 100 copies with transparent vinyl with black flecks and also a limited to 25 copies, mailorder only version with different artwork, screen-printed jacket and stamped/numbered labels. Inside the folder you will find a sheet with lyrics and a download code. Music wise there is dark,emotional and melodic crust at its best: No they don't reinvent the wheel since this was developed by From Ashes Rise and Tragedy, adopted by many other bands and first worked back in late 90's by the now forgotten and underated Narsaak before the rise of His Hero is Gone and Wolfpack. The songs of ep, the guitar riffs and chord proggression, the mournful melodies and bass lines, the drum bashing, all are great and stand equal to Remnants or even better than the debute lp, i 'd say there is a slight improvement in everything. The sound quality is excellent. Έρμαια Των Καιρών (Wrecks of times) is a new version of an old demo song titled Unveiling the Truth, (the other demo songs, Blindfold and Remnants appear in the lp). And if 5 Tracks Noise ep by Go Filth Go is the best raw D-beat ep released by greek band, i dare to say that Έρμαια Των Καιρών / Under The Shadows stands on the top of Greek band melodic crust  releases. The only bad thing is that there are only two songs here and nearly seven minutes of running time. This is available for streaming/downloading in Sarabante's bandcamp along with Remnants, btw their weird name is taken from a medieval dance, for more check wikipedia here,  This is also still available in physical copies so can score one, either from the band or the label and its worth to do it. Sarabante have blog, myshit and farcebook. check them.

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