Sometimes a band "progresses" and all that that really means is they start to suck. Did I say sometimes? I meant 99% of the time. Its really hard to keep that fire in your belly as you "mature" or "grow up" but its so important to hold onto for metal that it can ruin later albums if you lose it. Almost every time you hear a band talk about "progression", that means they've lost it. They've become "better than metal". As far as I'm concerned those bands can go die in a fire.
Once in a while a band quietly progresses their sound and still holds on to that thing that made the earlier albums so special. When you find a band that can do both... Well, you've got something special! You need to hold onto those bands tightly, for they are the actual future of our metal music.
And so we come to Deathhammer. If any of you remember this blog from a few years ago, you might remember the glowing review I gave these guys. In fact, They made it to the end of the year list that year. So here we are again. Time to thrash my brains!
The first thing to notice about this album is the introduction of more melody to the formula. Some of the melody reminds me of golden age Judas Priest or mid period Accept. The melody adds more to the formula helping Deathhammer stand on their own two feet even more than they did before. Allowing them to progress their sound. Now I know... The next question is, "Does it suck?"
MOST ASSUREDLY NOT! They have kept their speed at fever pitch. They sound ready to burn the world with a lopsided grin. From "Warriors of Evil" to "Omen of the Beast", They sound like the heralds of the Apocalypse, come to bring the fall of man, the four horsemen and the fire at the end. The end has come... FOR YOU!
This album allows additions to an amazing formula only to make it stronger and more ferocious! Ladies and gentlemen, Deathhammer has caught lightning in a bottle and they know how to distill it into violent metal madness... And we are all the luckier to have them in our genre!
HIghlights: Total Metal, Satan's Back, Omen of the Beast
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