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Azterion was born in December 31st 2000, with the purpose of create and develop a new and an original style of music, exploring many rhythms and genres, having death & trash metal as the main influence. We have suffered many changes in seven years, but those changes helped us to developed a unique style that we call Destructural Metal (in the early stages).

Honestly, I never thought that a day like this one will arrive for me as a metal fan to point out which my favorite Costa Rican band is if someone would ask me for a precise answer to it, and with no hesitation that answer is AZTERION!

Previously featured in issue three of our humble zine with a full three page interview, this trio is backing up all of their statements with this tangible gem entitled “Destructural”.

“Destructural” is not just a title at all, it is also a summary of the music contained in this, their debut album, where a lot of influences in the extreme metal music parameters can be found – Death Metal, Thrash Metal and subtle small Black Metal hints – plus intricate and subtle additions of progressive rock music bringing a whole experimental dimension to it but always loyal to brutality and hellish savageness! It is hard to say if AZTERION sounds like other band around, as a matter of fact that is something I totally admire of these bastards since they achieved to resume a hell of influences in an HONEST and unpretentious musical style and never in diminishment of the EXTREME concept they have been developing ever since their first years in the Costa Rican scene.

The album opens with an inspiring and quiet DISSECTION-like acoustic guitar intro which Japanese title “Shiawase” prepares you in a “fooling you around” approach for the bestial audio carnage you will face in “Camino de la Cruz”, a song plenty filled with aggression and neck breaking segments introduced by an intelligent progressive rock drum/cymbals break and developed later with explosive and melodic guitar solos in charge of very respectable and high quality guitar players which appeared as guest musician in this release: Victor Soto (guitars for the Costa Rican Heavy Metal performers SLAVON) and Jorge Molina (from the Costa Rican Heavy Metal legend ACERO.). The next to come are three high elaborated songs which follow the same “de-structure” approach they lined for their style: “Parábola”, “La Ley Del Duende” and “Azterion”. The last song –“Kanashimi” – is an instrumental keyboard based one during its first part because later it moves to a more guitar based melodic leads. To sum things up, 35 minutes of exiting extreme high quality elaborated metal is what your ears are going to experiment here.

In the sound field the band has nothing to envy to foreign countries and this album is a tangible example that in Costa Rica we do really have talent to produce high quality music with identity and devotion. As bonus material, the band also included some CD-enhanced multimedia with videos and other goodies. Full colored booklet, lyrics inside (in Spanish), pictures, etc…etc…etc…

Speaking how great they are is just useless, so I will finish this review in the classical way: BUY IT OR FUCKING DIE ASSHOLE!!!!

Gilbert Miranda (a.k.a. U.Xerxes.H) - C.T.T.I.H. Magazine