EP Review: Dead Kosmonaut – Rekviem (High Roller Records)

As a follow-up to their widely-acclaimed 2017 debut album “Expect Nothing”, Sweden’s Dead Kosmonaut have recorded a four-track EP entitled Rekviem, due for release by High Roller Records on September 20th 2019.

The four tracks that make up this EP all have their own story to tell. The opener, Frozen in Time is the newest of the bunch and defiantly heavy metal. However, Dead Kosmonaut aren’t afraid of experimentation and that much is clear here. It certainly borrows from a sound of yester-year but credit to the band, they inject it with enough of a modern edge to make it sound more relevant.

House of Lead (Nobody’s Home) is a reworking of the track ‘House Of Lead’ from the debut album, Expect Nothing. A very pretty track, it’s soft and melodic, more a ballad then anything else.

The instrumental ‘Skyhooks And Sound Mirrors’ lost out to ‘Grimeton’ when it came to deciding on what to record for “Expect Nothing”, and the spiralling, doom-laden title track ‘Rekviem’ was, in the band’s words “too extreme” for their debut.

Two very different tracks on an EP that certainly keeps you guessing as to what comes next. The former has a super-catchy beat while the latter is so slow and heavy, it really is the odd one out. Tough to say when there are no tracks that really sound the same at all.

Dead Kosmonaut – Rekviem Full Track Listing:

1. Frozen in Time
2. House of Lead (Nobody’s Home)
3. Skyhook and Sound Mirrors
4. Rekviem

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