Another black metal band that relies more on style over substance. As mentioned in another review, speed and aggression cannot supplement good songwriting quality. Gimmicks such as shoddy album covers, satanic lyrics and the overall evil aura that surrounds this band is not enough to impress me or any listener that actually seeks some actual musical quality. This album has a mixing problem, not really a production problem, the production seems to be decent. But the mixing sounds as if a pop producer mixed this. The guitar tone is weak and buried in the mix which is a travesty for any form of extreme metal. The Orc vocals, who seems like he caught a cold, is pushed in the front, together with the relentless blast beats that are way too overused, thus turning the music monotonous. As such, all songs sound the same. The song structuring is also formulaic, with the exception of one song in the second half of the album, which is least annoying one (forgot which). Almost all songs start with blast beats, move to a slower middle section and end with more blast beats. Had I been a teen or in my early 20s I might have liked this. But since I ain't anymore, this kind of music is pedestrian. Kids, best avoid. Even for black metal, this is fairly weak. I am willing to reward anyone who can actually tell apart one song from the other.
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