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This album is pretty straight-forward with what it wants to be: it's a Transilvanian Hunger worship piece. I mean this musically - every track is a very reductive style of riffing with every movement drawn out on four repeats, if not eight. It's very 'slow progressing' music. That's well and good, but it gets tedious - and I don't think any amount of polishing the other qualities could ever save it from being a little tedious.
Which is to say the production is very well polished and it's well-done on the base of its musicianship. It's a very clean sound, with even sound value given to all instruments. The bass is very rare, but it's so clear and heavy that you remember every time it gets a solo. The players are well-rehearsed and pounding out minutes and minutes of the same patterns without any mistake.
Buuut that's kind of my point. No matter how much polish there is, it's still very reductively written and you lose interest because you can always predict where the music will go next and everything is timed the same way, repeated over and over and over. It's highly polished boringness. A slight 'woodsy' or even classic-rock hint in the riffs here and there give the album (and new lineup) an identity, but still it's gonna be droned on for a while.
This is a new chapter in the band's history: longtime vocalist Wolf has left. Unhold, who's played all the instruments for 20 years is now also doing vocals - and Gelal from Grand Belial's Key has joined to help with guitar playing. I enjoy Unhold's vocals, he has a very deep and phlegmy sound to his growls.
Now, backloaded on the album are the few songs which vary in style from the monotony of the front half of the album. "Ew'ges Dunkel" opens with a rhythm guitar riff ripped straight from 1970s KISS and then adds a beautiful sing-song lead guitar on top. "Blitzschlag" is exactly what it sounds like - faster bass and drumming make a short but intense little blitz. "Knochenmann" and "Vorwarts" are the only uses of clean singing - although musically they're both another 'variation on the theme.'
Overall it's well made: the "new" vocalist and "new" guitarist do a great job, the production is master class... but it ends up kind of a 'polished turd.' The album needs more variety.
Sample: youtube.com/watch?v=WLEJQ4oulUQ
