If you lived through the mid-1990s and were guilty of tape-trading, it is very possible that names such as Krabathor, Dementor, Nomenmortis, Depresy, Dehydrated and Sanatorium appeared on the handwritten j-cards or enclosed letters when trading with a fellow Slovak metalhead.
Amorbital originated during that same period, a group of young teenagers who thought in 1993 that starting a Death Metal band was the right thing to do. After three years of tweaking and practicing in their rehearsal space, 1996 was the time to record their first demo, named ‘Crystal Rhapsody’.
Amorbital’s Death Metal reeks of the mid-90s in every way, especially in how they weave melody into the music without shifting towards Melodic Death Metal or the Gothenburg sound of that era. The same goes for the way technical and progressive elements are integrated, without making any connection to what people mean by modern Technical and Progressive Death Metal today.
The solos, melodic lines and sporadic use of synths show that they wanted to use everything available in their arsenal. This led to songs packed with tempo changes and ideas, where Death clearly shines through, but somehow, combined with the excellent deep growls of Ľubomír “Chrysogonus” Stanko, it all clicked for Amorbital. It truly comes together on the last two tracks, ‘Ignorance’ and ‘Untouched Fate’, making for a strong B-side.
After the demo, their debut album ‘Invidia’, was recorded, which was self-released on cassette in 1998 and then released on CD a year later by Shock Wave Records. Not long after, in the year 2000 to be exact, Amorbital quietly came to an end…
