I have the pleasure of doing the review for Exmortus’ new EP, “Legions of the Undead,” and this is pretty exciting. I am so happy that I got to listen to this before anybody else!
I think this EP is pretty sick. I really liked the theme that they're going with this time, just because I am a horror fan and I enjoy all things spooky and dark and undead.
I listened to this EP about six times, and I have to say it reminded me a lot of their albums “Ride Forth” and “Slave to the Sword“. And those two are two of my favorite Exmortus albums. “Ride Forth” is an album that I hold a dear to me because that's actually the first album that I listened to by them and how I got to know of Exmortus. At that time they were touring with Havoc and Extinction AD. But, anyway, back to the review!
Yeah, I think this EP is pretty sick. One favorite song of mine on the EP was the Beetlejuice cover. I think that they definitely did that track justice and I think it's great - I absolutely loved it! They also did a cover of “Psycho“, and that track was really, really good too. I'm a little more favorable to the Beetlejuice theme, but I do like “Psycho“. I really like that movie and I thought the song it was pretty good. I'm very glad they did those covers cause it's… I guess I wasn't expecting those songs to sound as brutal as they did. They were both really good.
And then they also did a cover of “Night on Bald Mountain“, which is a classical, instrumental piece by Mussorgsky. (Not sure how you pronounce his name. Conan's probably gonna give me shit about this!) You kind of grow up listening to that song in school, like if you had any type of musical or art appreciation classes. I'm pretty sure almost all instructors or teachers played that instrumental piece. At least I remembered it, and listening to Exmortus play that piece just blew it out of the water for me. Just super exciting!
I can't express how excited I am a about this EP. I think the band did a really good job. Conan, Adrian, Chase, and Cody all perform very well on the release, and I think they really, really brought the theme of the undead to life, especially with the album artwork too. It all just flows very well together.
For fans, I think this a EP is going to be everything that you expect from Exmortus and more. It's so, so good! If I were to rate this EP: because of how much I enjoy the theme and the music, and how much it reminds me of “Slave to the Sword” and “Ride Forth“ (and it's even better than those), I would give it a 10 out of 10. And I'm not just saying that just because I‘m friends with the band, but because I truly enjoyed listening to this EP. It was really good. I hope that all you Exmortus fans are just as excited as I am for it to be released because it's amazing.
The new Exmortus EP “Legions of the Undead” will be released on October 25th, which is by the way, very close to Halloween. So you guys can get spooky with it!