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Dread Sovereign - Alchemical Warfare



7.3 | 75 votes |
Release date: 15 January 2021
Style: Doom metal

Owners:

21 have it
2 want it


01. A Curse On Men
02. She Wolves Of The Savage Season
03. The Great Beast We Serve
04. Nature Is The Devil's Church
05. Her Master's Voice
06. Viral Tomb
07. Devil's Bane
08. Ruin Upon The Temple Mount
09. You Don't Move Me (I Don't Give A Fuck) [Bathory cover] [bonus]

Additional info
- digipak-CD
- 180g black vinyl (EU exclusive)
- slate blue / grey marbled vinyl (EU exclusive - limited to 200 copies)
- raisin rouge marbled vinyl (EU exclusive - limited to 150 copies)
- gold / black dust vinyl (Kings Road exclusive - limited to 100 copies)
- white / black marbled vinyl (US exclusive)

Staff review by
RaduP
Rating:
N/A
Primordial's Alan Averill takes a break from his podcasts and brings back the old school doom ethos in Dread Sovereign to properly kickstart the year.

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published 19.01.2021 | Comments (4)

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03.12.2020 - 17:14
Maco
Pvt Funderground
I'm ready.
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Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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Album Release day (January 15, 2021)
15.01.2021 - 10:51
traililya
STRONG!
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15.01.2021 - 12:38
Rating: 6
gavdann
For me this one is merely OK. It needs at least 10 minutes of fat cutting from the overall run time. It has moments but there's too much meandering and I'm regularly waiting for the next good moment to come along.
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15.01.2021 - 14:02
Rating: 7
Tom Muller
Gets better after the first couple songs. but not as strong as their debut
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don't say that
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17.01.2021 - 01:40
Rating: 6
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Staff
Surprisingly shallow for a 50 minute album. It's not that it does anything badly, it just doesn't do anything well. It has some solid moments that generate this trance-like feeling you can slowly nod along with, the melodies have a "washing over you" effect at times, but it all gets lost in the repetitive plodding that goes nowhere.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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19.01.2021 - 00:42
nikarg
Staff
"Nature Is The Devil's Church" and "Her Master's Voice" are clear stand-out songs.
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21.01.2021 - 10:07
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
This is one of cases when you need listen it 5 times and understand it, otherwise it don work , blasphemous doom metal, whit edgy raw riffs and raw approach from days when witch craft was real, I mean garage. Less publication, hard to get info, this how this band works, secret but burns up some good music, good doom metal. I wonder how is Alans other projects doing, maybe time for new albums?
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I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens.

Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"

I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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27.01.2021 - 11:19
Zap
I think what I like about this band is the bass and drum keeping things simple and grounded while the guitar is going overboard on the wah and other effects. It works for some songs, less for others.
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29.01.2021 - 11:09
Rating: 7
Tom Muller
Starts ok with first couple songs, gets better in 2nd half. all in-all a strong album
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don't say that
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15.04.2021 - 05:06
Rating: 7
BitterCOld
The Ancient One
Admin
Lingering in that 7-8 spot for me. Enjoyed it, will see how much so after some time and a few more listens.
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get the fuck off my lawn.

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24.05.2022 - 00:27
JÄY
Metal slave
Second half blows
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04.02.2023 - 02:16
Rating: 8
tintinb
Pretty good album I would say. I couldn't get into it in the beginning, but as I got into it, I really started liking it. It just feels really dirty, really murky sort of a doom metal album. Also the videos are really cool, gives a very good 80s horror vibes. Blasphemous doom metal indeed.
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Leeches everywhere.
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