Edition issued in a clear jewel case with 12-page booklet.
New album of this Polish Death Metal band, influenced by Vader, Morbid Angel, Deicide…
Ten blasphemous Hellspawns opus are like ten newly pounded nails into the door of the Wittenberg cathedral. Lyrics crushing firmament, burning harps and lutes, tears apart angels wings. “There Has Never Been A Son Of Me” is an album for those who appreciate freshness, arrangements variety, tempo changes and classical guitars. A solid death metal using orchestral elements, referring to death metal canons. The album released on a gold CD. All copies hand-numbered.
It’s been a while since Hellspawn released their last album, the excellent “The Great Red Dragon”. I don’t really know what was going on with this band since then, but at least their follow album came out recently, which is “There Has Never Been A Son Of Me”. In case you don’t know Hellspawn, they’re a Polish death metal act with three albums and one demo in their discography. I guess that for many fans out there Polish death metal is already something that equals quality and distinctive brutal music. And believe me, Hellspawn is one of the most solid and enjoyable bands from here, in my opinion. The band has with each record matured and evolved in a good direction, making better and better music. “There Has Never Been A Son Of Me” is another step forward for this band for sure. Another great release, more awesome quality death metal. Obviously it’s not a groundbreaking record, which would bring something exceptional and new to the genre. But are we even looking for something like this? I don’t. I just want to hear killer riffs, great songs, good arrangements and powerful death metal. This album has all that for sure. Hellspawn’s take on death metal is quite a diverse thing, because I think they equally dose the old school vibes, as well as the more modern death metal influence. Their music can be technical and blasting like crazy, but the next there will be a slower, even kind of epic songs. At a few occasions Hellspawn decided to use keyboards, but I am not sure if I like the effect, to be honest. It immediately reminds me how Vader decided to incorporate keyboards into their music and I never really liked it, it sounds odd and almost inappropriate for these sort of bands, in my opinion at least. It’s like they wanted to get an extra point for bringing something new, doesn’t matter if it sounds good or not. Of course I am not gonna moan that there are keyboards on “There Has Never Been a Son of Me”, some of you may like this orchestral feeling the keyboards add, some won’t, right? Sometimes it sounds worse (the final song), sometimes better, like for example in “Antitrinitarian”, which has such a small “God of Emptiness” vibe mixed with a bit of orchestral Septic Flesh-icism that you’re gonna love it anyway. “Heralded by Prophets” also has that killer feeling alike to Morbid Angel and damn, what a nice song it is, I simply love it. Other than that, the album is filled with ferocious, brutal, often fast death metal that will blow your head off. Similarities to Morbid Angel, Vader, Deicide, Vital Remains and such is strong, and these names should give you an idea what can you expect from Hellspawn. But as said, this is quite diverse material and I like how the band combines different types of riffs or tempos, aggression with some melodic accents, even how the vocals vary. It just brings fantastic results. It’s almost easily listenable, because this album is so straight forward that you’ll get into it immediately.
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