The humblest of packages can contain the best music you can hear sometimes. Yes, because I still recall some great Metal classics with covers that are simple, but the songs turned these albums into classics that time can't erode. Even in on current time, this strange feature still seems to be true, because as the North American quartet NECROPANTHER from Denver (Colorado) shows on the first album, called "Necropanther", an amazing musical work.

It's truly difficult to label their musical identity, because there are elements from Speed Metal, Thrash Metal, Melodic Death Metal and others in their musical work. At times, they can remind of something that CHILDREN OF BODOM did on their first albums, but it's not the whole picture of what they are playing on this album. It demands careful listening and lots of patience, because this album is truly different and its songs, amazing! This album shows that NECROPANTHER made great efforts to turn it up as best as they could. It was mixed by Eric Rutan on Mana Recording Studio, and mastered by Alan Douches on West West Side Music, and the result couldn't be better: clean, heavy and aggressive, with all the instrumental tunes in great shape and filling the spaces of the songs. The artwork for the cover, as I said above, is truly simple, and can make you have the wrong idea about their musical work.

Technical, brutal, heavy and with mixed influences, "Necropanther" is a lovely album, with 12 excellent songs that will get you for sure. "Death Eyes" with its fine musical arrangements and excellent vocals, the fine melodic lines shown on the guitar riffs of "Machines", the catchy harmonic aesthetics that exist on "Lightning Boltz Emanate" (where some contrast between shrieked voices and guttural grunts can be heard clearly), the beautiful aggressive melodic guitars of the excellent "Surgical Scene", the complexity of the brutal and tender "Plan of Attack" (that is showing an excellent work from bass guitar and drums), the complex part on the guitar riffs and nasty voices heard on "Hunter Killers", and the monstrous rhythmic parts of the thundering "Wave of Violence" with its bittersweet melodic parts can be named as the band's finest moments on this album.

It's time to think about a second album, and hope a Metal label can discover and sign these guys, because if they are as good as we find on their first album, their future can be something wonderful!