Awesome album! Still got the death metal \m/

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this album.

Great album. Very reminiscent of Dissection at times.

First song is amazing as fuck.

Amazing as fuck indeed ..best of 2018 so far and yeah Dissection ..i hear that as well ..fuckin rules!

Holy shit, that's a high score for this band! I do like Hrimthursum quite a bit, but not been too fussed about them otherwise, will have to give this a look

Written by musclassia on 24.02.2018 at 21:46

Holy shit, that's a high score for this band! I do like Hrimthursum quite a bit, but not been too fussed about them otherwise, will have to give this a look

do have a good look ..well worth it

This is actually great.

Fucking hell, this is really good

Me reading
track 6: Pasta
WTF!?

Written by Guest on 28.02.2018 at 05:22

Me reading
track 6: Pasta
WTF!?

you'd better get glasses

I dont like it
sorry

Overrated, more than half of the album is filler, only a couple of songs are good, but just good, not very good. Whole album lacks originality.

Written by 7charly7 on 28.02.2018 at 09:15

I dont like it
sorry

7/10 normally means you like it.

It is average +

Quality death metal right here. Thoroughly enjoyed this.

Very good. Not original but the energy, production and execution are very good. Better than their last couple of albums. Also the return of the original vocalist seems to be an upgrade from the previous guy.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 28.02.2018 at 05:25

Written by Guest on 28.02.2018 at 05:22

Me reading
track 6: Pasta
WTF!?

you'd better get glasses

I did!

Ah! It's "Necro-Pesta", not "Micro-Pasta".
Darn it.

Riffs were nice. Some songs are really good but I didn't like solos so much.

Good package but after all, almost all good tracks in this album smell so much like the stolen great successful formula of Amon Amarth ...

Tried my best but nothing to reduce from 9/10. This is a beauty of an album.

Solid 5 days of trying to find anything more than sub-par here. I give up.

It's nice and consistent, but it lacks top notch songs.

Absolutely beautiful. pure art here, gentlemen.

Why is it labeled death metal? it is obviously melodic black.

Necrophobic has always seemed to be one of those extreme metal bands that just worked, almost as if they could do no wrong. From a foundational stance, the structure of their albums hit fans and newcomers in a way that was welcoming despite being so abrasive.

I'm not sure how they were actually received in their prime -- if they ever had such a thing considering their consistency and longevity -- but I can say this album is a streamlined yet colossal undertaking that never waivers from its outset, and the over-arching or underlying (depending on whether you're a glass half-full or half-empty kind of person) sense of oppressive melody adds so much weight to what would normally be a fairly routine black metal album.

The only real drawback here is the year of release, and I suppose for those who seek out "best tracks", this album doesn't necessarily have one. Quite simply, this album wouldn't be discussed so casually if not for it dropping in 2018. Rather, it would be regarded as one of the all-time greats, up there with early Dissection and the like. Not that ratings or revisionism matter in the grand scheme of things, I'm just trying to place this on a scale understandable to people who might be looking for that same type of quality and style in the vast sea of what the metal genre has become.

Now, it's rare for bands to age like fine wine, especially with regards to the metal genre, where stagnancy or inconsistency seem more commonplace than maturity, but this album somehow manages to blend perfectly the archaic extremity of the early days of Swedish death metal with the current rendition of melodic black metal -- bombastic and sweeping in all its glory. Despite no standout single tracks, this is a 10-piece nugget meal you'll need time to recover from devouring. A true modern classic of the genre. Fans of old school Swedish death metal will be treated to a very niche aural orgasm, but anyone even remotely interested in black and/or death metal should give this a go, if only to experience a truly enjoyable ~50 minute foray into everything Necrophobic is about.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 23.08.2019 at 09:25

Quite simply, this album wouldn't be discussed so casually if not for it dropping in 2018. Rather, it would be regarded as one of the all-time greats, up there with early Dissection and the like. Not that ratings or revisionism matter in the grand scheme of things, I'm just trying to place this on a scale understandable to people who might be looking for that same type of quality and style in the vast sea of what the metal genre has become.

agreed thoroughly. Am I the only one who got a chuckle when someone said Necrophobic was copying Amon Amarth, despite Necrophobic being in existence nearly half a decade before AA released their first demo?

This is an outstanding album, the tracks work great together, but it does lack that individual "killer song". Instead, the whole album is superb without a standout track

Written by sgtrobo on 25.10.2020 at 01:21

agreed thoroughly. Am I the only one who got a chuckle when someone said Necrophobic was copying Amon Amarth, despite Necrophobic being in existence nearly half a decade before AA released their first demo?

Necrophobic eat Amon Amarth for breakfast if you ask me. If there is a resemblance with another band, that band is Dissection and not AA.

Written by sgtrobo on 25.10.2020 at 01:21

This is an outstanding album, the tracks work great together, but it does lack that individual "killer song". Instead, the whole album is superb without a standout track

The album is superb indeed. "Tsar Bomba" is the very definition of killer song.

Written by nikarg on 25.10.2020 at 09:33

Necrophobic eat Amon Amarth for breakfast if you ask me. If there is a resemblance with another band, that band is Dissection and not AA.

bingo on both counts. The similarities between Necrophobic and Dissection are far moreso than Amon Amarth, who aren't fit to carry Necrophobic's jock

Somehow Tsar Bomba killed this album for me. It's such a catchy track (I could show it to my non-metal friends) that it made the rest of the album feel a bit bland to me .. And I tried a lot to like it.