This is the latest third world obscurity from these purveyors of black metal filth. I'm not at all impressed with this release.
The guitar sound is chaotic and buzzsaw-like, if a little thin. The recording, as a whole, is hampered and dominated by repetitive percussion via drum machine, one dimensional song writing, and demo-like production values. The songs do not distinguish themselves from each other; everything descends into a chaotic blur, without any sense of brutal hypnotic ambiance that usually makes this kind of blackened thrash successful. Bathory and Mayhem this tries to be, but doesn't come close.
In other words, this is a crap album. Even when, from time to time, the tempo slows down, as on Flood of Fire, the riffs are so awkwardly played that it elicits only a rudimentary head bang. Occasionally, some weird back masking effects and ambiance are used, such as Chaosblade, but you've heard it a 100 times before by better bands. Actually Chaosblade is one of the better songs on the album, distinguished by a weird use of high and low rasps and screams, and slightly more variety tempo-wise. Occasionally, a trebly bass line can be discerned, only to disappear into the muck.
Interstellar Doom is also a song that almost works, containing a few imaginative riffs, but screams out for a real band to interpret them, and in the end is overwhelmed by the crap thump thump drum sound. Otherwise, this is completely disposable. It never quit evokes an atmosphere of evil, just a few cheesy grunts and cheap gimmicks. Get a real drummer, dude.
Rating: 3 out of 10
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