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Technical/Progressive Death Metal
One of the best known metal acts from Baltic States, Neglected Fields rose out of the ashes of local bands in fall of 1995, with the initial line-up Sergey “Destruction” (vocals, guitars), Herman (guitars), Sergey (bass), Karlis (drums). The new band traveled to neighbouring country Estonia, where in Townhall Studio in Tallinn the first demo “Sansara” was recorded in spring of 1996, containing four tracks of intense technical death metal with a strong influence from Death, Cynic, Atheist and Carcass, and a light touch of beautiful soprano co-leads from session vocalist Rasa. It quickly made its way into many European magazines and, thanks to successful promotional campaign, “Sansara” received multiple rave reviews in European metal press, receiving the “Demo of the Month” title in Aardschock (The Netherlands), Extreme (Germany), Eternity (Germany), Vampiria (Italy)). Soon after that the band received numerous offers to release the debut CD, while the band enjoyed successful gigs all around the Baltic States, including in Death Comes 6 festival in Vilnius, supporting Therion in front of 1500 fans.

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This piece of technical/progressive death metal made them very popular and critically acclaimed in latvian metal underground and abroad. If you want to hear some quality music in the vein of CYNIC, ATHEIST and late DEATH, you should try to find this CD somewhere.
Many were shocked at the cover art of the first album (how can a metal CD have a butterfly on it???!!!). Well, fuck them. The cover art characterizes the music really well, because the songs are as colourful, expressive, unsymmetric and beautiful as that painting. The influence of CYNIC is felt in the riff structures as well as in the presence of acoustic/atmospheric breakdowns, which are more rarely to be found on this music than that of CYNIC. NEGLECTED FIELDS are undeniably more agressive, not so ambient and more metal. (c) part of review by therm

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Technical/Progressive Death Metal

	Neglected Fields - Splenetic 2006 @VBR ~238 kbps (lame 3.90, joint stereo, 44100) Links: iFolder || ShareOnAll
	Neglected Fields - Mephisto Lettonica 2000 @320 kbps (lame 3.93.1, q=0, stereo, 44100, enc. by Doost) Links: iFolder || ShareOnAll
	Neglected Fields - Synthinity 1998 @320 kbps (lame 3.93.1, q=0, stereo, 44100, enc. by Doost) Links: iFolder || ShareOnAll