ENCARTE: NEVERMORE [3]
Quando a banda é nova, pressão de gravadora é oportunidade e convite. Bastidores + contexto de “In Memory” (1996) – trechos inicial e final – por Matin Popoff.
“THE PROVERBIAL TOUR EP
With a really cool European tour drawn up, what’s a label to do but tell their charges to whip up a bunch of tunes to sell on the road and do it fast. It’s a time-honored turn of events, and one of metal’s light bright hopes Nevermore found themselves in that situation, sent o’erseas to bunk with the likes of Iced Earth, Tiamat and The Gathering. Fortunately, the guys were already toiling away at what would become their sophomore materpiece, The Politics Of Ecstasy, so inspiration was in to short supply.
‘The In Memory EP and Politics…’ recalls Nevermore vocalist Warrel Dane, ‘and the Judas Priest cover for that Priest tribute – I think it was like 17 songs – we did all in one session, and we were under such tight time limits. It was crazy. I still can’t believe it got done. Century Media wanted to release the EP before we started a festival tour over in Europe, and they had somebody else master it. I think the EP songs are great, but if you listen to the sound quality, between In Memory and Politics… same producer, same studio, In Memory sounds funny: it sounds a bit squashed. I mean, most people probably think it sounds okay, but if you take into consideration that both of those recordings were from the same session, same everything, the sonic difference is really kind of staggering’.
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Impressively, Nevermore found a way to make the In Memory EP cohesive, when so many of these things are not. Nevermorphing the Bauhaus material, and through three of the remaining four tracks being somber and essentially ballad-framed, the band showcased a subtle side to their sound that has since become an important part of any given Nevermore sound“.
