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Necrophobic - Hrimthursum
Release: 2006Label: Regain Records
By: DeathViking
Posted: Jul 17, 2006
Sweden's Necrophobic is back after four years without a proper album release. The last release was simply called "Tour E.P. 2003" that featured four tracks and five covers released by Hammerheart Records. Hrimthursun contains 12 new tracks at just under one hour released by Regain Records, a label that has been pumping out releases and signing bands like crazy lately. This is a good release for the band. This album is entrenched in the thrash roots of blackened death metal with a good sense of melody and by listening to the album all of the musicians are worthy of their craft. This is my first taste of this band though.
The first track on the album is as the rule goes for black metal bands, the intro. The end of the track blends very well with the beginning of the second track, which is probably the strongest song of the entire album. The good thing about that is that you are hooked after the first song. The following few tracks of the album are worthy songs for this album. One of the things that I noticed pretty quickly about this album is that the guitar players are fond of the higher notes, and they do not come out sounding overly harsh on the ears, showing that they also have had some decent production on this album. The music on this album is not very original in the way of blackened death metal, however they have been able to do a good job on putting together and composing a tasteful album, the guitar solos on this album are evidence enough, but the song structure also helps. Throughout the album the band has made use of the clean male and female vocals and singing, in one way or another. The band has also made a little use of the piano; do not get this confused with the bands that like to use keyboards and synthesizers. Throughout the running, this has been a pretty forceful album in the way of driving the songs forward, but the guitar solos are about the only thing saving the mundane parts that come up a little too frequently. Thankfully there is generally one to save the song but there are just a few too many drawn out riffs and ideas scattered throughout. The second best track on this album has got to be the last song and the title track of the album. After hearing this song it almost makes you forget about all of the songs and boring parts in between the second track and the last, wanting to go back and listen to the album again to listen for other good songs.
Some of the songs on this album are very good; unfortunately this album does have a few setbacks. In the fourth track entitled 'Age Of Chaos' probably has one of the better guitar solos on the album, but the song is drawn out for far too long. In the sixth track there is a backing guitar line that sounds very similar to something heard earlier in the album, more filler? I think that this band could have hewn a few parts of their songs and shortened the overall length of the album or saved some of the songs for an EP or later release and in the process made it a much better production that it came out to be. The length of this album is probably the most overbearing aspect, although the guitar solos and chorus like vocal interludes happen to save this album.
The first track on the album is as the rule goes for black metal bands, the intro. The end of the track blends very well with the beginning of the second track, which is probably the strongest song of the entire album. The good thing about that is that you are hooked after the first song. The following few tracks of the album are worthy songs for this album. One of the things that I noticed pretty quickly about this album is that the guitar players are fond of the higher notes, and they do not come out sounding overly harsh on the ears, showing that they also have had some decent production on this album. The music on this album is not very original in the way of blackened death metal, however they have been able to do a good job on putting together and composing a tasteful album, the guitar solos on this album are evidence enough, but the song structure also helps. Throughout the album the band has made use of the clean male and female vocals and singing, in one way or another. The band has also made a little use of the piano; do not get this confused with the bands that like to use keyboards and synthesizers. Throughout the running, this has been a pretty forceful album in the way of driving the songs forward, but the guitar solos are about the only thing saving the mundane parts that come up a little too frequently. Thankfully there is generally one to save the song but there are just a few too many drawn out riffs and ideas scattered throughout. The second best track on this album has got to be the last song and the title track of the album. After hearing this song it almost makes you forget about all of the songs and boring parts in between the second track and the last, wanting to go back and listen to the album again to listen for other good songs.
Some of the songs on this album are very good; unfortunately this album does have a few setbacks. In the fourth track entitled 'Age Of Chaos' probably has one of the better guitar solos on the album, but the song is drawn out for far too long. In the sixth track there is a backing guitar line that sounds very similar to something heard earlier in the album, more filler? I think that this band could have hewn a few parts of their songs and shortened the overall length of the album or saved some of the songs for an EP or later release and in the process made it a much better production that it came out to be. The length of this album is probably the most overbearing aspect, although the guitar solos and chorus like vocal interludes happen to save this album.
Rating: 7/10
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