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/ Bathory / Destroyer of Worlds
Record company: Black Mark
Release date: 2001-11-27
Reviewed by: fabsters
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Experimenting metal veterans keep going
Nov 27th 13.11 /
Bathory have never been concerned about good taste or sounding mainstream in their music. Instead they have found their own ways and discovered new musical ground, which has made them one of the most important bands in developing the black metal and death metal genres, together with their own viking metal.
They keep experimenting on this their 13th album, which makes it varied and it remains interesting all the way through. Each song has it’s own distinctive character. Most songs are slow, ballad-like and heavy, with vocals ”like heavy metal falling from the sky”, and a quire of men’s voices in the background, sounding neither clean nor proffesional. Parts with acoustic guitars are common and lots of different sound effects are used.
The common theme of the lyrics is, of course, death and blood, whether it’s in the hockey rink, like in ”Sudden Death”, or in shape of a WWII bomber roaring through the sky above a city by night, which is the case in ”Death From Above”.
This album definately offers thrilling listening, at least if you have an open mind (and perhaps a minor lack of good taste :-)), and it will be spinning in my CD player frequently.
And one last thing... Unfortunately the track list on the cover isn’t correct - two songs ”Kill KIll Kill” and ”Krom” have changed place.
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