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Germ

Album: Loss EP
Label: Eisenwald
Tracks: 6
Release Date: 15.10.2012
Length: 34′ 46″

 

Riff Score: 7.0/10

After the debut ‘Wish’ launched in March, Tim Yatras’ solo-project Germ releases an EP entitled ‘Loss’ and continues with the spacial and cosmic trip verging on a dreaming ambience.

 

Germ is a musical project that was born in 2003, almost ten years ago, but the explosion only happened in this year with the debut “Wish”, released in March via Eisenwald. However, Germ’s releases did not stopped there and the “Loss” EP will be released on October 15, also via Eisenwald.This is Tim’s solo project which approaches his personal taste regarding music where he mixes Metal, Rock, Atmospheric soundscapes and… electronic evironments. The australian Tim Yatras was also part of Austere and guest drummer/vocalist on “Torn Beyond Reason”, Woods Of Desolation’s 2011 album.

We are used to depressive and black metal stuff coming from this musician, but in Germ he tries to put aside the vigorous depression and recreate it as a spacial scenario through the electronic blending, he even uses pure piano passages like in the last track, “Loss”. The piano is also used in the opening track, “My Only Hope”, where he sings with clean vocals along with the instrument. This song is easily divided in two parts: the opening part where the electronic movements start to slowly appear and the second part where I can easily say this is Germ and Tim’s screams are his notorious trademark already known in Austere and Woods Of Desolation.

Although the “Loss” EP is a Germ’s record, there are some differences between the new launching and the previous “Wish” album. In the “Cold Grey Dawn (A New Beginning)” track exists a pop/rock approaching which was never so evident as now. The screams are there, but the chorus is without doubt pop-oriented, the drumming pace is also a little bit different from what I am used to listen regarding Tim’s work.

“So Lonely, Dead Lonely” and “Only When Every Piecetime In The World Is Smashed, Part I” tracks are the songs which better charactize the way the musician wants to drive his project. The epic orchestral pieces are a beautiful and nostalgic fill combined with the desperate screams. The formula is always the same, but if you love this kind of music you won’t get tired and the depressive perspective is gently traded for a dreaming and cosmic trip due to the palette of sounds, electro loops and spacial imagery. Is also in those songs that I – as a reviewer and as a Tim’s work connoisseur – find out his wanting to overtake the boundaries of what he has done in the past with other music partners and pour his pure and significant touch – his individual musical world is described in Germ.

Another new thing is the “Only When Every Piecetime In The World Is Smashed, Part II” track where Tim can explore his clean vocals as never before and being only accompained with guitars full of echoes.

I don’t want to believe that Tim Yatras definetively left away his past concerning old projects like Austere and I also want to believe that he will continue to appear as guest or as main-man in bands like Woods Of Desolation, but the extinction of his appearances in other bands led him to focus his vision in what he wants to create at the moment. This moment is about the debut “Wish” and is about the upcoming “Loss” EP. This moment is Germ.

Track List

01 My Only Hope
02 So Lonely, Dead Lonely
03 Only When Every Piecetime In The World Is…
04 Only When Every Piecetime In The World Is…
05 Cold Grey Dawn (A New Beginning)
06 Loss