Metal Reviews
Metal Reviews
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Ever wonder what'd be like to take a headlong dive into the pits of Hell? Well wonder no more, just follow their lead and you'll be there in no time. And let the Angels sing. There are few bands that desecrate the name of Jesus more than this Dutch Diabolos and even fewer that can match the power and fury with which they deliver their inflammatory message. Taking up where they're impressive "Grand Grimoire" left off a couple years earlier, "Bloody Blasphemy" finds their infernal views and unsettled mood for creating dark, decrepit dirges amidst a barrage of thunderous blasts and holistic fury wholly [or "unholy"?] intact. Even at times more determined, particularly where "Boiling Blood" is concerned. And where we were left before "Under a Silver Moon" we're now abandoned to a decidedly gloomier plight "Under the Golden Wings of Death" where the end most certainly is near. "Soul Capture 1562" offers a brief glimpse to the surface where a ray of light peaks through offering a milder interlude from the ensuing chaos only to be brought forth that much stronger at its conclusion. one that will mercilessly bring you to your knees. "Do You Believe in Jesus?" For God's sake don't answer "yes"! Released by Metal Blade Records GmbH, P.O. Box 1332, 73054 Eislingen, Germany. Metal Blade Records Inc, 2828 Cochran St. Suite 302, Simi Valley, CA 93065-2793, USA Website : http://metalblade.iuma.com/ Email : mtlbldrcds@aol.com Review by Vinnie Apicella. |
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Ravenous
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More venomous vitriol from the Netherlands-and how appropriate their very existence, spawned from the underworld and the serpent shall rise to reveal the dawn of the last day… God Dethroned is cause enough for alarm-"Ravenous" is simply another caustic example of the world gone to straight to Hell, never to return. The latest in a string of Metal Blade masterpieces that began with '97s "The Grand Grimoire" has pounded yet another glorious spike into the heart of humanity. "Swallow The Spikes" takes aim at those irreverent sinners-perverse preachers in whatever their guise, God Dethroned, demarked and dead on toward hypocrisy, the crudest work of the Devil-our lead character, as always, the unsung hero who stops cold the warped and unwarranted rumblings of supposed morality dressed in dollar signs and eternal damnation and decay awaits-but alas, God Dethroned takes umbrage in no uncertain terms with certain other moral issues, lashing out barbarically, offering no quarter and asking none in return. "Bloody Blasphemous" they were and forever shall remain so long as this horror of humanity continues to have its way. "The Poison Apple," follows the trail left by our famed biblical duo-never quite like nature intended it should be noted. "Villa Vampiria," "The Mysteries That Make You Bleed," and "The Iconoclast Deathride" is a triumvirate of the most reviled and bloody proportions, standing out in midstream as the band at their sharpest, leaving nothing to chance, their fire burning stronger than ever. "Ravenous" sees God Dethroned from the very onset at their most savagely brutal best, featuring forefront, Satan scavenging the lifeless remains of a fallen angel within the shadows of the dark before surging forth with a blinding combination of ungodly Black Metal principles, black magic, blinding speed, quick flashes of harmony and singular lyrical content drawn from the cauldron fire. They're dreary downtrodden two-part doom sequence in the form of "Autumn Equinox - Winter Campaign 2002" takes a slightly wrong turn toward a deep abyss where moments in the pain soon becomes intolerable, the twisting writhing instrumental elements lead into a tremendous explosion wrought with mayhem, soaked with death and pure overkill. "Ravenous" concludes with a cover of the old Death classic "Evil Dead," which they ungraciously manage to defile in no more than two minutes! God Dethroned continues to climb in the ranks among the top three or four among the extremist elite of Death Metal forces! Released by Metal Blade Records
GmbH, P.O. Box 1332, 73054 Eislingen, Germany. Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu]
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