Izegrim - Code Of Consequences - review
Izegrim - Code Of Consequences - review
Tracklist
01. Victim Of Honor02. My Secret Society
03. Incommunicado
04. Center Of Momentum
05. Deathstrip
06. Final Farewell
07. Fade Into Obscurity
08. Psychopathic Mind
09. Population Zero
10. Code Of Consequences
A review by
Doc G. March 07, 2011
You folks all like Decadence, right? Well, oddly enough, Izegrim is very similar. Aside from the obvious shrieking female comparisons that may arise, we're looking at another catchy thrash-melodeath hybrid. It's about as straightforward as you can get; take the tight rhythm section you find in a lot of melodic death, lighten the bottom end up a bit, throw in some thrashy chainsaw riffing, then sprinkle your guitar melodies on top. Yes, it's a fairly typical sound (what isn't these days?) but reliably entertaining to some degree, even during it's more hum-drum moments.
The parallels Izegrim has with Decadence is actually pretty astounding, as Decadence's latest album Chargepoint suffers from the same sort of self-inflicted deflation that we see here. It's this no-subtlety, constant gnashing of teeth that just makes it a tiresome listen by the end. Code Of Consequences is a steady, reasonably consistent album, it's just unfortunate that the deeper you get into it, the less frequent the high points become. Izegrim seem to be another one of those bands that always needs to have everything cranked; aggression, tempo, volume, yet falls short when it comes to creating an album that feels like more than 5 songs.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 8 |
| Songwriting: | 6 |
| Originality: | 6 |
| Production: | 7 |
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Weird that the women apparently use stagenames here, cause they have never done so before. And as far as I know there is only one woman in the band namely Marloes handling bass and vocals.
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Posts: 9726 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 08.03.2011 at 09:58 Woops. I mis-read the promo shit. Fixing it.
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Posts: 40071 Written by Doc G. on 08.03.2011 at 10:36 But have you seen marloes? She really does look like Goldilocks 
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Oh and she the bassist not guitarist 
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Posts: 9726 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 08.03.2011 at 10:46 Yeah, but I think the Goldiloxxx nickname is the guitarist - who is male. I guess it's one of those irony things.
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Posts: 40071 Written by Doc G. on 08.03.2011 at 10:48 Aha could be. But it still remains weird cause they have never used a nickname not even on Dutch language metal forums. Ah well, must some sort of joke thing then.
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Posts: 18613 Written by Danyael on 09.03.2011 at 00:06 Well.. his last name (Godin) does mean "Goddess" in dutch as far as I know hehehe
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Posts: 40071 Written by X-Ray Rod on 09.03.2011 at 12:15 indeed it does
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