This was a very exhausting album to review, the guitar lines are not bad, actually a couple of good riffs can be taken out of this, but the rest was just painful, not because the band is bad, just because they use too much elements they shouldn’t have and too little of what they should have.
Maybe a couple of songs may sound original or just plain good, but rapidly you realize that the formula, the structure in which they wrote one song is repeated to exhaustion, I mean every song ends up being a rearrangement of the previous one, a continuous loop of riffs that otherwise could have end up being quiet good.
Ok so how’s the music? symphonic raw black metal, with vocals quite close to Cradle of Filth and a very annoying low growl that just sounds like a pretentious burp, the vocals do improve as the album progresses but sadly the songs don’t.
Thy Endless Wrath has some good symphonic ideas and passages that make up for the lack of variety on the songs, sadly they are not delivered in the right amount, while the over use of the blast beat is just ridiculous, is like the drummer could only think of that when they let him include the drums into the songs.
A 53 minutes long album that felt like 7 hours. The album cover is pretty cool by the way.
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