Bloodsworn-All Hyllist Til Satan

Agonia
2008



This album was actually supposed to be released a decade ago. However label problems prevented it's release back then. It was later remixed in 2007 and now it finally gets to see the light of day. The album starts out in very noisy fashion. Unfortunately it's confusing, annoying noise rather than a brutal or aggressive style of noise. Perhaps they were shooting for chaos, but the results were not impressive. A few songs in they get a handle on the music to an extent. This is black metal with some old style thrash wedged into the cracks. They certainly have moments where they nail down some direction. However they spend far too much time rummaging around in layers of mess. They could have gone heavy, fast or a combination of the two and it would have worked. Instead they get caught up in a web of sound that isn't doing enough to advance the songs. The vocals are typical at best and bland at worst. More than anything I just got the sense that this band didn't have enough of a plan of what they were going to do. Granted perhaps having to wait ten years to release has made this album seem a little dated. Yet I think that even if I had heard it in 1999 that I still wouldn't have been very impressed.