In the name of… is one of those peculiar albums that first don’t tell you anything, then they intrigue you, and finally they end up tearing a tiny bit of your heart, but with no concrete explanation why and how did they it, you just end up knowing you need to listen to it more and more with hopes of someday “get” why are you drawn to something that doesn’t seem very deep, complex, memorable or innovative… I know it sounds bad but this album those disturbed you for a couple of weeks as you try to pin point why you want to heard it, and all you get is a solid track that doesn’t really resemble what the entire record is all about, that song been Despair, a melodic death metal track that really stand out in oddness on this thrash/death blend.

21 Lucifers apart from sounding at least to me as a terrible name for a band (then again I think Vomit is a cool band name!!!) create an interesting enough production for you to explore and maybe study (I love using that word when talking about metal…study metal!); but sadly after bringing forth a promise of discovery, you realize that the album and the band are still in a sort of embryonic stage, were the result might sound interesting but they don’t consolidate any ideas other than the variety of interchangeable thrash/death riffs that cover “In the name of…”.

A couple of songs approach what could be consider a distinctive sound, but these are extremely different from each other and for some reason (could be a very drowned out drum sound) do not provide closure to what they are trying to do; those two songs are: the nice thrasher styled “Greed Spreader” and the melodic Gothenburgian “Despair”. Another interesting fact and reason why the album is so intriguing at first is the length of the songs, ranging between one minute and two, making this look at first glance as a grindcore production and not a death/thrash album.

21 Lucifers seem to have an idea… hell they seem to have two billion ideas, the problem is the execution and association of those ideas, they just seem to still be in a embryonic (using the word twice now) experimental stage that could develop a pretty unique and interesting sound, but we’ll just have to wait and see what happens don’t we?