Kataklysm - Serenity In Fire - review
Kataklysm - Serenity In Fire - review
Tracklist
01. The Ambassador Of Pain02. The Resurrected
03. As I Slither
04. For All Our Sins
05. The Night They Returned
06. Serenity In Fire
07. Blood On The Swans
08. 10 Seconds From The End
09. The Tragedy I Preach
10. Under The Bleeding Sun
A review by
Undercraft March 05, 2004
The Album starts with an spoken passage taken from the 2003 movie "Road To Perdition" (Starring Tom Hanks), it goes like this: "This is the life we chose, the life we lead, and there is only one guarantee: none of us will see heaven". After the passage, heaven can kiss my ass, because this guys blast things off with "The Ambassador Of Pain" great album starter, the drumming is madness!! The double bass is one the best I've heard since Fear Factory, and the melodic parts mixed with the riffs and the more brutal sections of the song just melt into one terrific song.
"The Resurrected" gives us a first glance of the backing vocals, (less grunty, more shrieky), the combination of the 2 type of vocals is amazing. "As I Slither" has one of the most catchy choruses in Death Metal history, I can't stop singing it!
"The Night They Returned" has fantastic riff work, and of course, the double bass again, I think my favorite song in the album is "10 Seconds To Die" wonderful song, here we can witness a duet between the both type of vocals, reminded me of a Deicide song, " Revocate The Agitator" sadly, is the shortest song in the album (clocking 2:46).
This album is just madness, prepared to enter a new dimension of insane drumming and maniac riffing, and must say that, this is, until now, a really good year to Nuclear Blast, a lot of good releases under their sleeve.
Fans of brutal yet melodic Death Metal, should get this one immediately,(well, as soon is released March 08, 2004) until that day, you could go and look the past discography of these guys, because is exactly what I'm going to do.
Written by Undercraft | March 05, 2004
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I liked this album quite a bit when I first listened to it, but I get tired of it more and more with each listen. I prefer their old stuff.
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This work is much slower than all the other previous albuns.. its melodic with almost no guitar solos, the drums aren't crazy anymore (except in the song ''Blood on The Swans''), the structure of the songs is better organized and there are even some ''clean'' vocals (well, some parts where the vocalist seems to be talking). Its a pretty decent modern death metal work, it has two or three songs that are Really good, such as ''For All Our Sins'' that is kinda epic, and in some parts looks like that speedy thrash (reminds me a little of DevilDriver  ). ''The Night They Returned''' also has an awesome rythm, and another good track is ''Serenity In Fire''.
----  ---- member of the true crusade against old school heavy metal, early 80s thrash, NWOBHM, traditional doom, first and second wave black metal, old school death metal, US power metal, 70s prog rock and atmospheric doomsludgestoner. o/
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Another great release from Kataklysm, awesome album production is absolutely top-notch
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There's something about Kataklysm that I just can't bring myself to like. Maybe it's the production. This album is too slow for it's own good.
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