Review: Spearhead - Decrowning the Irenarch | |||||||
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Decrowning the Irenarch | |||||||
Label: Invictus Productions Year released: 2007 Duration: 37:47 Tracks: 11 Genre: Black/Death Rating: Review online: September 14, 2008 Reviewed by: Michel Renaud |
Readers' Rating How do you rate this release? Rated 4.06/5 (81.25%) (16 Votes)
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Review | |||||||
After their strong debut Deathless Steel Command, Spearhead are back with an album that kicks even more ass. It's not a major departure from the band's Blackened Death Metal - they pretty much stuck to a winning formula, with a little more Death Metal in the mix this time around. The blackened elements are still quite present, especially the excellent vocal work, basically aggressive, in-your-face BM screeches that are even decipherable to some extent. The sometimes annoying drum sound from the first album is gone; the drums sound great here, and that drummer sure knows how to play fast and tight, destroying the listener's ears with a thundering sonic barrage more times than I could be bothered to count. The guitar work is just as great, the guitarists shredding like there's no tomorrow, putting out fast and heavy razor-sharp riffs one after the other and throwing in a few speedy solos. The band already sounded tight before, but here they got even better, and the production job doesn't hurt either, delivering a clear and clean sound that nonetheless has just enough of a raw edge to it to give this bad boy some more attitude. A constant atmosphere of destruction of apocalyptic proportions can be felt through and through; it doesn't matter whether it's the fast-paced material (which is most of the album) or the slower, mid-paced passages that add a pinch of bleak darkness to this inferno. Decrowning the Irenarch is purely and simply a Black/Death gem from a severely underrated band that belongs up there with the best of them. Recommended. |
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