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| #FOR FANS OF: Black/Death |
This is a softer release from the band, even though they mix black metal with death metal. I'd have to conclude that they are a "milder" Necrophobic than I'm used to. These guys mix what it sounds like more of a Viking metal sound with a death metal prerogative. The vocals go well with the music. This is my favorite Necrophobic album by far. Just everything is supreme and perfect, filling the listener with this slaying metal, metal listen to that clocks in about an hour in length. I don't mind them borrowing their name from a Slayer song, but at least they could've come out with stronger earlier albums. Those don't really sit well with me.
They're just more mature on here and the music is more melodic, but the brutality is less than their predecessors. I like how they fluctuate with various tempos, and they're just more experienced here. They don't seem to let up on the music. It's strikingly intricate!
I think from the first few listens to, they're much sharper in musicality and maturity. In some songs they'll be faster than other with an orchaschedrial than other songs. The leads are top-notch. They really whiz through the fretboard with everything in unison.
The vocals are top screams, slaying the music wholeheartedly. This release doesn't really have with it any flaws. Hence, the reason I gave it a perfect score. They range between brutality, a milder form of metal, then a more clean song base which captures everything notwithstanding. What a kick ass black/death metal platter that seems to hit everything metal related. Even the clean guitars segue into a more brutal sound, bringing with it such a metal, such a metal event through in and throughout. I like everything on here. And it only took me a couple of listens to that picked up everything wholeheartedly. More than any Necrophobic release than any other!
Can you grasp this total onslaught? I was able to and let's hope that they don't get softer, hopefully this will be their mildest LP! (Death8699)
(Century Media Records - 2024)
Score: 80