Cost: $2.00
I was very excited to find this so cheaply, and this crushes the majority of my usual bargain bin finds musically. Outside the context of the bargain bin, it's still a solid release, but not fantastic. Bolt Thrower is the main reference point here, though they don't quite sound as close as a lot of the reviews I've read would have you believe. Imagine a distillation of Bolt Thrower's '90s output (they bypass the grindy/chaotic stuff of the first two albums completely) passed through a musically simplified, mid-paced filter, and you're pretty close. I liked the album before this one a lot more, as it threw in some slower tempo-ed stuff, reminiscent of both old UK doom/death and the gloomy atmospheres on some of the old Sunlight DM. Here it's almost exclusively mid-paced, with few exceptions. The material here doesn't completely overcome the lack of variety.
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