SACRAM: another new band from Athens, Greece. Well, not that new since they are active from 1999, but this self-financed EP is their second release.
As I wrote earlier, John Karkoulias and Paschalis Christofilos gave birth to the band in 1999. During the same year, their first demo Desert Sea was out. Despite the bad production, the critics of that demo ware encouraging. Unfortunately for the band, the next years ware not that good. From 2000 since 2007, they had numerous problems with the band members.
This EP contains four songs and they play death metal with a touch of progressive and thrash. SACRAM are somewhere between AT THE GATES, DARK TRANQUILITY and old ANATHEMA and some of their riffs are looking towards ROTTING CHRIST. Nice ideas are in here, plus the guys seem to give 100% of their will in Far Away. The work they did, as far as the eight-page booklet concerns, is a good example for other new bands to see what they can achieve. SACRAM has all the potential to do the next step, and I hope that they won't disappear, something that happens with lots of bands that aren't from countries like Germany or the U.K.
For a self-finaced EP the band is doing a great work and they are worth the support.  They have room for improvement, especially in the instrumentation and the production. But they have the time to do that.