Ragnarok - Malediction - review
Ragnarok - Malediction - review
Tracklist
01. Blood Of Saints02. Demon In My View
03. Necromantic Summoning Ritual
04. Divide Et Impera
05. (Dolce Et Decorum Est) Pro Patria Mori
06. Dystocratic
07. Iron Cross - Posthumous
08. The Elevenfold Seal
09. Fade Into Obscurity
10. Sword Of Damocles
11. Retribution [vinyl bonus]
A review by
wormdrink414 November 03, 2012
Ragnarok have been around since '94, but released the bulk of their material after 2000. That, based on the type of BM I'm hearing on this thing, makes them a "myriads" band. They almost strictly play heard-it-before stuff. And they look like this. Without hearing their previous albums, I'll bet your first guess as to what they sound like is damn near spot-on.
Basically the only thing bands who do what's been done before... and done again... and again... then done again... can do to make their stuff worth checking out is play it really fucking well. Which, to an extent, these guys do. This is an album full of technically proficient, fairly hard-hitting, melodic-ish, evil-sounding sonic blackness. At its best it sounds a bit like a Taake disc (especially in the stand-out track "Necromantic Summoning Ritual"), just with less sense of ingenuity and less banjo, with a fair bit of 1349 thrown in. It's always solid, it just never really sounds more than just solid. The drumming comes away stealing the show, with a few excellent riffs scattered here and there, but the vast majority of this is only a little better than meh.
Written on 03.11.2012 by
Written on 03.11.2012 by
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I'm looking forward to this album, a 7.0 is not so bad, but your review is not very good at least for me, and do you need to show how the guys look to talk about their music?.
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I thought it was a great review. Will probably avoid the release though, doesn't seem like something I'd enjoy.
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"tried and trve" can just as easily be read as "trve and tired." I love this line.
---- "A life all mine Is what I choose At the end of my days" --The Gathering "A Life All Mine" from Souvenirs
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Posts: 376 Written by Malignar on 04.11.2012 at 18:12 Its definitely got an edge over their previous release. And i literally worship the 2nd wave, and this album got the right element to it for me to fall in love. Got this with Burzum-Umskiptar and its totally worth it.
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Now that I got it, I must disagree, but your review is interesting to read. Well of course Ragnarok never actually did something new, but I like this album for it resembles some early Gorgoroth releases for me, just with different production quality. I like it. And yes, Necromantic Summoning Ritual is the outstanding track.
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