In fact, a review can be very easy, or even unnecessary. The real connoisseur has of course already seen it: the red/black/white artwork, the logo, the band name and its title. Everything about this release shows that we are not dealing with the next chapter in Axel Rudi Pell’s series of ballads.
After having pressed the play button, the intro with canonical singing, bleating goats, church bells and machine gun fire completes the image: this is a band that honours the mighty Proclamation. But they do so in a slightly more Black Metal sort of sound. The riffs are much less grinding and the overall production (or sound, if you will) is a little thinner. Therefore the global impression is a little less crushing, yet, that might also be due to the fact that these ten tracks (merely clocking 20 minutes) are recorded live in the band’s own studio. Or, well, studio, I don’t know if that is a term that really qualifies for a rehearsal space, but at least the result is very tasteful. A great morsel of frantic and rabid Black/Death Metal (or, if you will, Bestial Black/Death Metal like one of our critical readers likes it) with the pitch shifted vocals are the icing on this burnt black cake. Nothing new, but these Greeks play it in a more than convincing and enjoyable way.
