Venom - Metal Black - review
Venom - Metal Black - review
Tracklist
01. Antechrist02. Burn In Hell
03. House Of Pain
04. Death & Dying
05. Regé Satanas
06. Darkest Realm
07. A Good Day To Die
08. Assassin
09. Lucifer Rising
10. Blessed Dead
11. Hours Of Darkness
12. Sleep When I'm Dead
13. Maleficarvm
14. Metal Black
A review by
jupitreas June 27, 2006
Those familiar with Venom's previous album Resurrection will feel right at home here. Although the lineup has changed yet again, the band still exploits the same musical ideas - Motorhead inspired thrash metal with production that reminds me of death metal. Indeed, Metal Black sounds as thundering as if it was Behemoth or Vader recording it, with great emphasis being given to crushing drum beats. Together with the heavy compositions, this gives extremely powerful results on such tracks as "Death And Dying", "Assasin" and "Sleep When I'm Dead". Unfortunately, unlike the previous release, on Metal Black there are no detours into other metal styles and the heavy artillery can get rather tedious after a while. In small doses it's very good but almost intolerable as a whole.
With all this said, Metal Black is still an acceptable release from these distinguished veterans. It could be much better but for old fans it will be a good enough excuse to wear those torn Venom t-shirts again and headbang like crazy.
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| Yumos Muraticus
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I like this album, but I think it would have been way better if they took out tracks 10-13 (unless I'm remembering incorrectly). This album is too long for its own good.
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Posts: 9726 Written by Dangerboner on 31.05.2007 at 06:57 Thats wierd, because 'Hours Of Darkness' was the first song that really grabbed me on that album, and 'The Blessed Dead' has a pretty sweet solo. 'Maleficarvm', 'Death & Dying', and 'Assassin' I found were the only not so good songs. Otherwise I loved this album.
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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the four first songs are extremly boring, the album gets better with Rege Satanas and Darkest Realm. After these, the tracks 7, 8, 9 and 10 (specially 8. Assassin) are horrible. The best song is by far ''House of Darkness''. I would give this album an 6 too, it is, like jupitreas write: acceptable.
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