A symphony of harsh negativity and violence. That is it. That is the evaluation.
Simply kidding, in fact. However there actually is not an excessive amount of you want to clarify to get to the essence of this album. That is Kommand‘s second full-length album, a comply with as much as 2020’s Terrorscape. The phobia continues on Loss of life Age, with a totally coordinated assault mounted from each angle of the sonic battlefield. The guitars lead the assault, with the blasts from the bass and drums offering shut floor help. In the meantime, the cavernous guttural vocals infiltrate behind enemy traces to make sure most devastation. It is a lean, devastating work at simply over 26 minutes.
When you’re not accustomed to Kommand‘s sound, I might describe as a main combination of two bands with accoutrements of some extra blended in at key moments. On the foundational stage, it is a mix of Bolt Thrower‘s muscular type with Incantation‘s darkish and ominous ambiance. Consider a Warhammer 40k military on the transfer … however make it vaguely demonic. You get the thought. The stability is pretty even all through the report, although the ending riffs on “Collapse Metropolis” are very paying homage to the extra melodic moments from Onward to Golgotha (“Immortal Cessation”, for instance).
However there are moments that recall different bands as properly. Take note of a number of the riffs on “Chimera Troopers”, particularly the half on the 52-second mark. The sudden break with the riff by itself immediately jogged my memory of Demoncy. Try “Fleeing Western Territories” and you will hear it straight away because the tune begins. Swap in Ixithra‘s raspy voice and it would not be too misplaced on Joined in Darkness. Pay attention shut and also you would possibly hear some reminders of Finnish acts like Convulse and Purtenance, together with inescapable similarities to Funebrarum and their darkish brethren.
Topically, the subject material needs to be fairly apparent. It is an album in regards to the remaining death-throes of civilization via warfare, plague and common collapse. The band presents it as a nightmare imaginative and prescient to behold by itself phrases, and leaves the listener to resolve how you can really feel about it. The band does not have something to promote however the work itself.
For battle torn nations internationally, it is a imaginative and prescient that is already coming true. For these fortunate sufficient to be at peace, it is a reminder of the tenuous nature of security and stability in a world at all times collapsing and reforming throughout the violent storm of historical past.
It is a imaginative and prescient each charming and horrifying. You are aghast at what you see, however it’s offered in such an interesting method that you could’t flip away. And so it’s with loss of life steel accomplished proper. Kommand does it excellent.
