Track Listing
1. Serpent king 2. Nocturnal 3. The execution Protocol 4. Boiling blood 5. A view of ages 6. Soul capture 1562 7. Under the golden wings of death 8. Firebreath 9. Bloody blasphemy Year: 1999 Label: Metal Blade - Official Site |
God Dethroned - 'Bloody blasphemy' - By M. Lynch
Extreme Speed Freaks is what I like to call these guys. They play so fast yet they play so symphonic. What I mean by that is that they are very brutal black metal but they include keyboards and other types of instruments in their songs. That, in my eyes, is the good kind of black-metal. So what�s so good about this band that any other Black-Metal band hasn�t done yet. Well nothing...They are not as brutal as lets say Ragnarok or some other more extreme Black Metal bands. Their riffs are really cool. Very fast and very difficult to play. Their drummer is really good I think. He doesn�t double bass a lot, which is a turn down because he has the ability to double bass a lot but he doesn�t. He mostly sticks to the snare drums and a high hat which is okay...but only okay. At some parts he does go pretty fast on other drums like the bass drums while hammering down the snare drums with the high hats. Pretty good I think. At some points he�s not all that fast. It's almost like the band gives him a break a lot during some songs where the guitars just take control and he just sits there and breathes and maybe takes a ten-second break. I guess that�s ok but a drummer shouldn�t have to take breaks like that. Its not like the songs are forty-minutes each. Most of God Dethroned�s songs are about two to three and a half minutes long. Only a few songs hit over the five-minute mark. One of those is �The Christhunt� and the other is �Soul Capture 1562�. �Soul Capture 1562� is one of my favorite songs off the CD. I don�t know why but it�s just a great long song. The thing is the song is really slow, almost like a black-metal ballad, which is kind of uncommon and is mistaken sometimes for Gothic Metal. The guitar riffs are really cool in this song just very slow. Though later on near the end of the song the drumming and riffing gets faster and faster and becomes better and better. Overall it�s a good CD. I wouldn�t say it one of those classic Metal CD�s but call it, as you will. It�s a good CD. I play it quite a bunch of times in my car so I guess I like it. Metal Obsessive Grade: 95% |