Anyone who has followed Blood Red Throne’s past will know that they churn out juggernaut death metal albums that are neither overly technical or simplistic drivel. In fact the band’s template of concrete riffing set against a bulldozing rhythm section is well and truly honed to perfection on this the bands fifth album this decade.
The first crushing bars of “The Light The Hate” set the scene for the smash and grab death metal riffing cascade. The band rarely ventures further than a few riffs in each song and this is the reason why they are so damn effective at demolishing your already battered metallic ears. Beware the double bass kick employed throughout the album is thicker than gelatinous molten magma. The speedy intermittent blasts in “Harme” have a loose chunky thrash element that adds to the crushing catchiness. The tsunami style bass kick continues in “Throne Of Damnation” with a fiery riff explosion and highly infectious kick beat.
“Human Fraud” builds slowly like Morbid Angel’s “Where The Slime Live”, being deep and sludgy, gritty and dirty in one oozing metal mass. The pace is whipped up someway in before the ooze returns. “Demand” is a favourite of the album as I’m a sucker for those catchy riffs, yet this time a cymbal smashing frenzy is added to the groove. The pounding “Your Cold Flesh” with its densely thick guitar elements is far more preferable than the speed workouts as they are just far more memorable.
It is fair to say there isn’t a weak track on this album and there are traits in each song that make it stand it out, be it the corking speed death metal riffs in “Prove Yourself Dead” or the devastatingly brutal “Ten Steps Of Purgatory” that is packed with modernistic metal melody. This stuff will absolutely kill live and seeing as they are one of the few bands I have not seen I hope they hit our shores later this year. A cracking death metal album.
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