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Let's get the obvious out of the way. The band's name is terrible and off-putting. The cover and logo are as well, for that matter. I don't know where the idea came from, but for a long time I had heard OF the band but not heard them, and I thought they were in the Misery Loves Co. vein.
I'm a little surprised Wicked World/Earache released this, especially as around this general time period, Nuclear Blast had a pretty sizeable melodic death and modernized death/thrash roster. The band plays melodic death metal with black metal styled vocals. Compared to the Gothenburg melodic DM archetype, this album is a tad more musically aggressive, focuses less on guitar harmonics, and uses tempo variation to a greater degree...Though used sparingly, I thought the best parts of the album were the doomier sections, and it makes me wish these guys had formed a doom/death band instead (a style the Dutch have excelled at, after all). On the negative side, there are unnecessary clean vocal sections in "King of Karnage" and at the beginning of "Bloodstains"--they just served as momentum killers.
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