ULTIMATUM – among potential states – CD

Death Metal – Loud Rage Music

The very first Romanian Death Metal full-length album, initially released in 1996, now re-mastered and enhanced to meet modern standards! If back in the ’90’s the album was maybe a bit ahead of its times, now we have the proof of how monumental this material was!

ULTIMATUM (Timisoara, Romania) released their first and only album “Among Potential States” in 1996. The first of this genre in Romania, the album went beyond the classical Death Metal as members were big fans of Progressive influenced Metal and non-Metal bands at the time. The work embeds progressive elements and keyboard atmospheric themes within metal riffs, to pastel somber or dark passages. Lyrics, mostly inspired from personal experiences and the contemporary frustrating reality, are precisely placed, discoursed and murmured throughout the songs. Music and lyrics symbiose together to enhance some of the many potentials states an individual may go through during life, a journey through discovery, feelings and philosophical interpretation of human behavior.

This new release is a reissue of the 1996 material, with remastered tracks to enhance vocals and the overall dynamics. ULTIMATUM members, who kept contact since the disbandment in 1996, chose for this project to not re-record the whole material, but to remain sound judicious within the veins of the 1990’s Metal era, for authenticity and originality.