Terror Throne - World on it's Knees
April 28 2008 at 03:52:38 AM
Thriving in obscurity, Terror Throne’s Robert Campos has consistently managed to release music that is beyond the simple categorizations of good and bad (besides the cover art, I mean).
Free from rules and conventions, free even from shame, Campos work continually demands to be met on its own terms. No, Terror Throne does not do more with less, but does extremely well within its confines - a warped style of music with vulgar tinctures of Black/Death Metal that often better articulates such vile feelings than the typical Norse-inspired grout.
World on it’s Knees shows Campos ability to give his albums personality apart from one another while still moving forward with the same spastic time changes, stalking guitar lines trailing way off center, and an overall antagonism in the ensemble that forever precludes easy listening. In fact, the entire rhythm set seems so isolated from each other that the album sounds almost didactic in nature, more interesting as an object than a piece of music, spread open raw like a y-section incision which – true to its master’s violation of form and good taste – virtually catches Campos’s upchuck track after track.
Although Terror Throne’s potentially massive entrance into heavier, doom-centric tracks like “Apocalyptic Nightmares” and “Death Soon Followed” - featuring guitar leads by frequent Campos collaborator Randy Moore, each sounding like something from the Cirith Ungol demo tapes – is unfortunately restrained in the end by poor production, those in search for something out of the ordinary have little to lose with
World on it’s Knees. Sic sic sic.
[Todd DePalma]
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