Troll - Neo-Satanic Supremacy - review
Troll - Neo-Satanic Supremacy - review
Tracklist
01. Til Helvete Med Alt02. Alt For Satan
03. Gå Til Krig
04. Burn The Witch
05. Mørkets Skoger
06. Hvor Tåken Ligger Så Trist Og Grå
07. Neo-Satanic Supremacy
08. At The Gates Of Hell
09. Smertens Rike
10. The Age Of Satan
A review by
KwonVerge October 14, 2010
So, I bet you're curious concerning what to expect, yet don't be, I think you've already guessed correctly after reading the first paragraph and your third eye can't fool you. The recipe is as follows. Firstly you take the more fiery guitar passages of Dimmu Borgir's Enthrone Darkness Triumphant and Spiritual Black Dimensions and cut them into small pieces. Then you start boiling Covenant's diastric keyboard pulsars (Nexus Polaris) in a more ominous and psychotic aura along with Spiritual Black Dimensions' aesthetic. As the salt & pepper we add a pinch of the aforementioned band's debut album, In Times Before The Light, an ingredient that is apparent more as a feeling rather than in the song structure. Now that you have the main body ready, you blend them all together and light the hellfire at high temperature, something that works usually as a more aggressive and fierce guitar approach, mainly up-tempo moments that slow down a bit at times (something more vivid on the fabulous "Hvor Tåken Ligger Så Trist Og Grå") and a violent harmony amidst the instrumentation of the album.
Yes, it's true, something really worth-mentioning has to be the production and the fact that all instruments work really well together so that one doesn't surpass another (except probably for the bass lines that have a lurking yet pulsating role in the "background"). This means that you will definitely find the keyboards and orchestrations floating above the compositions (at times they even surrender), yet, they don't devour the sound of the guitars since they hold a more dynamic role, whereas the shrieking powerful vocals are somewhere inbetween, neither getting lost behind walls of sound nor being at the abusive front. As for the drumming, it just delivers the singal in the most appropriate way and all hell breaks loose, fire in the hole!
All in all, Neo-Satanic Supremacy is a very strong and pretty solid release blending together high velocities, aggression, storming melody and darkening ambiances. The album delivers the message without babbling, it is exactly the reflection in the mirror, ten compositions, 41 minutes, it could have been a small gem, but it's a decade late. If you miss those days (1997-1999), then you should definitely check this out, after all, Nagash wasn't on the watcher's stand, on the contrary, he was part of the rising machine back in the days.
And some words prologuing the end from the man himself:
"Through the fabric of the promised future aeons
I offer this suffering of my unwanted Father..."
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 8 |
| Originality: | 6 |
| Production: | 9 |
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I'll have to check this out, as I love black metal. Wasn't this Gaahls' first band?
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Posts: 5068 Written by Yojimbo on 14.10.2010 at 02:27 Hmmm, i think not, if you mean the one and only cult black metal hero from the norse mountains of goat blood snow 
---- Dec. 30, 1334. ...And the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on.
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Posts: 232 Written by KwonVerge on 14.10.2010 at 02:32 Yeah, I just looked on his wiki-page, it was Trelldom I was thinking about
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Hmm saw one of their albums a few weeks ago at a local cd shop. May have to go snatch it now.
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I have liked this band for a long time and I was very happy to see them recently added to MS and even MORE happy to see them release an album this year after so long. I enjoyed reading this review and it makes me want to get the new album even more!
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I think there is a misconception of style, by calling it "industrial". Actually they play symphonic BM, as Dimmu Borgir does.
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