Runemagick - Dawn Of The End - review
Runemagick - Dawn Of The End - review
Tracklist
01. Dawn Of The End02. Voyage To Desolation
03. Chthonic Temple Smoke
04. Retaliation
05. Volcano Throne
06. The Circle
07. Magus Of Fire
08. Sabbatum Ad Infinitum
A review by
Deadsoulman May 18, 2008
As you may have gathered from the confused and highly uninformative introduction above, Runemagick play doom metal with a death metal edge. Don’t think doom metal as in “throw a chord, leave the room, have a shower, go shopping and come back right in time for the second part of the riff”. Runemagick’s music is much more dynamic than that. In fact, Runemagick retained this particularity from their early death metal years that all their music is based on the Riffs. They worship the Fearsome Riff God, so much that they dedicated their entire career to the search of the ultimate, perfect Riff, and every release is a new step towards the completion of this quest. “Dawn Of The End” is a collection of the most polished Riffs the band has come up with over the years. It is so efficient that the sparse growls, while being absolutely not bad, almost break the momentum created by the building up of the music (with the notable exception of “Retaliation”). The pace seldom varies even on the 11+ minute-long tracks, and yet “Dawn Of The End” never gets boring or repetitive. This is all due to the songwriting talent of a doom band whose approach clearly remind of old-school thrash and death bands: no nonsense, just great, groovy, chunky, neck-breakingly headbangable music the way it should be, enhanced by a perfectly fitting dirty production.
The ultimate, perfect Riff is not to be found on this album. This is a very good thing, because it means that Runemagick will have to carry on with their quest and therefore will have to release even more music, undoubtedly as great as “Dawn Of The End”. Meanwhile, I certainly enjoin any doom, death and thrash fans, and more generally any sensible person who worships the Riff, in other words any metal fan – yes, that is you, poor mortals! - to bow down and adore the Messiahs of the Fearsome Riff God, Runemagick the Great. Thanks for your attention.
Written by Deadsoulman | May 18, 2008
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And I still manage to overlook this band somehow. I'd better get some of their albums soon I guess. Shame on me for overlookign a band which constitutes of the same people as The funeral Orchestra
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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i'm familiar with their first 3 albums, they're quite good. for some reason, i never bothered with their newer material, though.
---- Blessed is he that murders Christ in himself and in his fellow men.  Written by TheBigRossowski on 10.02.2009 at 16:01
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first two albums were rather nice. I'll try to listen to this one
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