Revocation – Great Is Our Sin
Revocation is a breath of fresh air in the current musical climate. Don’t get me wrong there’s plenty of great music around but I feel a genuine excitement with this band as I feel there is a serious potential for a breakthrough album that will be a game changer and will push the Metal genre forward.
Six albums into their career now and the band are still evolving with each release. While there are sprinkles of influences throughout their songs the band doesn’t sound like anyone else. They are Thrash one minute, death metal the next. There are hooks, melodies. There are progressive tracks like 'Monolithic Ignorance' with its watchtower like off timing. Yet they never branch to far away from the core of what the song is about. There is never any drum fills or guitar widdling just for the sake of it. The awesome title track 'Arbiters Of The Apocalypse' which sees the band at their most accessible. There is so much going on with this album that it reveals something new with each listen. While the band is so versatile they are touring with a wider variety of bands which will also broaden their appeal. The album finishes with an awesome modern take of Slayer’s 'Altar Of Sacrifice' which isn’t as good as the original (how can it be?) but it fits the band wonderfully.
All in all a great addition to an increasingly exciting body of work from one of metal’s brightest hopes.
Six albums into their career now and the band are still evolving with each release. While there are sprinkles of influences throughout their songs the band doesn’t sound like anyone else. They are Thrash one minute, death metal the next. There are hooks, melodies. There are progressive tracks like 'Monolithic Ignorance' with its watchtower like off timing. Yet they never branch to far away from the core of what the song is about. There is never any drum fills or guitar widdling just for the sake of it. The awesome title track 'Arbiters Of The Apocalypse' which sees the band at their most accessible. There is so much going on with this album that it reveals something new with each listen. While the band is so versatile they are touring with a wider variety of bands which will also broaden their appeal. The album finishes with an awesome modern take of Slayer’s 'Altar Of Sacrifice' which isn’t as good as the original (how can it be?) but it fits the band wonderfully.
All in all a great addition to an increasingly exciting body of work from one of metal’s brightest hopes.
- Arbiters Of The Apocalypse
- Theatre Of Horror
- Monolithic Ignorance
- Crumbling Imperium
- Communion
- The Exaltation
- Profanum Vulgus
- Copernican Heresy
- Only The Spineless Survive
- Cleaving Giants Of Ice
- Altar Of Sacrifice (cover Slayer)
Label: http://www.metalblade.com
Reviewer: twansibon
Jul 5, 2016
Jul 5, 2016
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Lost Brethren – Cosmological Constant
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