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Darkane
Album: Demonic Art
Release Date: October 24, 2008 (IMPORT)
Label: Massacre Records
Track Listing
01. Variations of an Eye Crush
02. Leaving Existence
03. Demonic Art
04. Absolution
05. Execution 44
06. Impetious Constant Chaos
07. Demigod
08. Soul Survivor
09. The Killing of I
10. Wrong Grave
11. Still in Progress
12. Wrath Connection
Reviewer: Eric
The upcoming fifth album by Darkane is the first that features new vocalist Jens
Broman. When Andreas Sydow left the band in 2007 Darkane went on a wide search
for a new lead man and the sound is much better. Is Demonic Art the best
album from these Swedish metal heads?
Demonic Art is everything you would expect from this Sweden band. The sound is
fantastic and the new singer, Jens Broman, is great. Only after ten years
Darkane has proved that they are one of the best bands in the thrash metal
scene. What makes Demonic Art the best release from the band is the added
industrial and melodic sound.
Darkane sounds like the bastard child of Strapping Young Lad and Meshuggah, but
this is a good thing. Both of these bands are great and combing their styles is
defiantly a great sound. Broman is doing his best as the new singer and he never
lets go with pipes. Along with the guitar team of Christofer Malmstrom and Klas
Ideberg you have a damn good album.
Former Arch Enemy drummer Peter Wildoer is still lending his talents with
Darkane. The fifth release from Darkane has a nice touch with some nifty drum
solos. Wildoer goes all out with these tracks but there is one thing that ruins
his work.
The spoken words from Massacre Records is on this release. So far this album got
the worst of it. Some tracks seem to have up to four spoken parts. There are
points where the spoken words seem to dim the sound down for the rest of the
song. This is a huge problem because every other song seems to suffer this;
thankfully the first three tracks were perfectly fine.
Final Verdict
I really enjoyed the latest release from Darkane a lot, but the spoken words
really ruined things. For now I have to give this a lower rating than I should
but I can’t help it. Until I can hear the real release this album is getting a
lower rating than usual albums I review.
Rating
6 out of 10
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