The Pakistani Metal scene has too many bands playing the same monotonous form of thrashy death metal. Every person who knows how to play a guitar decides to form a death metal band with some horrible barker on vocals. But Eleventh Hour wanted to be different. They wanted to play old school thrash metal inspired by bands like Testament and Megadeth. And they do it better than anyone else in Pakistan.

Lets start with the production of this album. Considering that this demo had been self funded and recorded, it is pretty good. I know the vocalist of the band personally, and when I talked to him about the production, he was full of praise for the producer, Mr. Nadir Michael. Its no surprise that he was full of praise, because for an independent and self financed release, the production is pretty clear, especially when compared to other Pakistani bands from the Punjab region, such as Orion and Dementia. Just by listening to the album, you know that the producer had worked hard to ensure that every instrument sounded perfect. The only problem with the production is that sometimes the vocals seem to be drowned in the barrage of riffs, and it kind of takes a bit of quality away from the songs. The drums at times suffer from the same fate as the vocals, but not always.

Since this demo has only 3 songs, I'm going to focus on the songs individually. The demo's opening track, 'Quarry

Reviewed by MegaHassan
11/01/2008 09:31