Burial Remains -Trinity of Deception (2019)

Label: Transcending Obscurity Records

Tracklist:

1. Crucifixion of the Vanquished

2. They Crawl

3. Trinity of Deception

4. March of the Undead

5. Burn With Me

6. Days of Dread

7. Tormentor

 

 Directly Swedish old death métal sound back to my head after my first one preview of Trinity of Deception a sound who give you desire to headbang …..to shake your head and take some beers, an old school sound played by great recording, perfect production that gives off a pure sound and clean sound we can even say that the quality recording reaches for the old school style almost the cutting edge of technology, from the Netherlands Burial Remains is one of the purest Death Metal bands I have heard recently. Because nowadays we are bored by substandard prog death metal bands .

Guitar duo Wim and Phillipus have studied the Dismember and Entombed style (Swedish Death Metal)

It all starts off with “Crucifixion of the Vanquished” and what a way to start off an album . This is the heavy hitting Death Metal this is the briefing of the album  and the melody mixed in makes it that much better. The guitars, drums and vocals are absolutely played perfectly. “They Crawl” is a face ripper for sure right from the start. It’s definitely a song that will make you want to headbang and taking some fresh beers the pure taste of old school the Dismember flavor is here adding some death n roll touch to get the Entombed style  “Trinity of Deception” track to pay attention I don’t think that’s heavy but slower than previous track.

“March of the Undead” this track is little bit doomed with great fast drumming in the outro. “Burn With Me” track to pay attention because is one of the top favorite songs on the album

“Days of Dread”another form of doom / death metal.  And we can conclude with “Tormentooooooooor” the final song on “Trinity of Deception”
now we need a pack of beer a song to pay attention  and add a top of  favorites song of this  album. TORMENTOR, TORMENTOR, TORMENTOR fuckin fuck fuckity  awesome! , you must add this album to your collection….take a beer 

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Immortal-Northern Chaos Gods (2018)

Label : Nuclear Blast Records

Tracklist:

01. Northern Chaos Gods

02. Into Battle Ride

03. Gates To Blashyrkh

04. Grim And Dark

05. Called To Ice

06. Where Mountains Rise

07. Blacker Of Worlds

08. Mighty Ravendark

This is the reborn of Immortal !!! , with new start , with Immortal (Demonaz = Immortal , since Blizzard Beasts there are no Immortal) now the ridiculous things  are over.

Northern Chaos Gods is designed to reassure fans more than revolutionize the black metal scene, but all the recent shifts and band drama result in one of Immortal’s strongest outings to date. Demonaz proves to be a capable leader….I consider Demonaz  the true leader of Immortal, effectively injecting an old school aesthetic into the band’s grim and frostbitten vision. It may be an intentionally derivative work but fans of all things Immortal should enjoy the trip.

Immortal releases his ninth album in the space of twenty-eight years, and this time it's without Abbath ... but with Demonaz the true leader of Immortal

So we find Demonaz (vocals, guitar), Horgh (drums) and it is Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy, Bread, Bloodbath, Edge Of Sanity) who officiates on bass.

Remember that Peter is the official producer of Immortal since the album At The Heart Of Winter (1999) and he has offered this sound so special, inherent in the band since then.

Abbath embodied a unique voice in the Black and he was the voice of Immortal and his departure, relieves me because Abbath is not the true leader Abbath change the true style, Abbath has erected the real Immortal.

Demonaz's song seems more striking to me than Abbath's, it is in any case black vocals pure juice, also an unstoppable efficiency. Then the band  returns to a black closer to that of 90's.and  it's perfect.

It will be added that the sound is always in the tradition of the previous ones, perhaps less polite, however, in this case totally in phase with the style.

Finally, and no album of Immortal without that obviously, the riffs identifiable between a thousand are still there and we always have Demonaz keys, Demonaz riffs are back

If the band relies a lot on speed (we start very strong with Northern Chaos Gods, which plunges us into a distant past, without concession, that of a Battles In The North, Into Battle Ride), an important place and an unstoppable efficiency. (Mighty Ravendark, imposing title, grandiose, with more than nine minutes on the clock).

In addition, a few more atmospheric forays, well adapted to the dark universe of the band, are invited (within Gates To Blashyrkh, Mighty Ravendark, the beginning of Where Mountains Rise tracks to pay attention).

Precisely, these three compositions perfectly embody the dark and frigid aspects of the Norwegian formation, it emerges a form of greatness that catches the senses, inevitably.

What is appreciable (and ultimately corresponds to the Immortal spirit) is that on this album the combo does not bet on the all speed or the all mid, which is the strength of Northern Chaos Gods is the diversity which emerges with, especially, here the presence of particularly catchy riffs (the mid tempo part of Grim And Dark) or there, the communicative dynamism of Called To Ice and Blacker Of Worlds.

But anyway, in terms of tempo and rhythm, we cannot but notice the Horgh job of Horgh behind his barrels!

I can consider that this vintage 2018 embodies a new beginning that marks the same time a return with fanfare of Immortal.

Dark, intense, aggressive, exciting, Northern Chaos Gods deserves a lot of laudatory qualifiers. If we add the sound, just perfect because fully adapted to the band's music, it seems clear to me that Immortal is coming back to claim a place of choice in Black Metal ... you know what it is remains to be done!