Athenaeum Of Sin Reviews

Crystal Fate is a Canadian heavy thrash metal solo artist. On August 5th, 2022, Crystal Fate independently released his second studio album, Euphoria, which includes eleven music walls of rawness and evilness tracks that would gratify Megadeth and Mercyful Fate fans. The album was promoted through Pennsylvania Music Fan.

The First Three Sins of Euphoria

Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Crystal Fate and his Euphoria album.

The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion: A hauntingly exquisite and fiercely intense old-school metal

Immediately before, the listener presses the play button and heads into the review and the music. Crystal Fate was created from the nine circles of hell’s heavy metal inferno pits in 2021 by sole member Phil Arson ¹, with music with a good vibe and evil feeling of 80s thrash/heavy metal sound.

As soon as the listener presses that play button, one is welcome to the opening piece, Euphoria; one is welcomed straight into the music (cutting out all the fancy intros) and following ten pieces, which take the listener on a journey of pure thrash and heavy metal music. That will surely make you bang your head, fist pump the air, air guitars, and the volume cranked up to eleven!

Euphoria provides and delivers this perfect and well-executed evil fruit of art upon the listener’s soul and ears, an equally solid release—simultaneously, both the composition/score of the music, instruments, and production are all well-executed -all wrapped together in a well-balanced perfection, each piece doesn’t overpower each other, of giving the listener’s ears a theatrical sound that’s rich in the rawness of utilising various tones, moods, tempos, which is all this is delivered by solid/executed devilmanship.

Phil’s vocals bring the music alive with his various tones of rawness, evil, and soaring (sing-along) choruses, interwoven with quality elements of Dave Mustaine‘s snarling, almost aggressive style and Alice Cooper‘s theatrical flair. The result is a hauntingly exquisite and fiercely intense sound, capturing the essence of old-school metal in all its heavy metal glory.

While listening to and writing this review, I found that Crystal Fate has created something new and fresh. Yet he has created a style and sound of his own while capturing this somewhat Megadeth heavy-thrash sound, the theatrical/epic-evilness atmosphere of Mercyful Fate with a touch of/hint of epic power metal and blackened speed metal.

The album comes to an end with the last song, Distant Place. We want to give a shoutout to Pennsylvania Music Fan for letting us review Crystal Fate and his Euphoria album. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.

The Last Three Sins

Let’s discuss the last three sins, our thoughts on Crystal Fate and his Euphoria album.

The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia: Is that for us, Euphoria is a perfect release for any thrash/black/speed and heavy metal fan. A release that captures this lush, mouth-watering, head-banging rawness and evilness within its music wall  “like discovering an album/music in a dusty old attic”.

The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:

The artwork is different and seems to fit the music

The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:

Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of Crystal Fate and his album Euphoria.

This concludes the Crystal Fate, Euphoria review.

1. “Phil” (vocalist/guitarist) is also featured in the thrash metal act “Active Arson,” which was formed in 2017, releasing an EP, single and one debut full-length release “Lilith’s Awaking.” ↩︎