Vader - XXV
July 8 2008 at 06:16:23 PM
Is that fossilized wedding cake on the counter, hon? Hrm. Sometimes it’s best to file that anny away; let it lift into the luminiferous. Quite a bit of
de rigeur tossin’ the salad days with the graying upon the chin set. To wit: Reams of reissues. Clear intentioned vault raiding. Demos upon demos. Upon demos. Unearthed! Since forgotten! Now brought to light! Or, actually the worst-case scenario: a “remake.” Total. Full. A bit more plastic. A bit more overproduced. Untidy sonics swept into airbrushed corners. Drums and guitars and vox turned to a big roaring taffy of sound. Sticky. Sweet. Um, silly. Deutschland’s Sodom tried its hand at the ol’ REMAKE/REWORK via
In The Sign of Evil and wrought ‘07’s
The Final Side of Evil, a not unspectacular revisitation that uncovers that ’85 vintage with sepulchral, stage-bloodied hands. [Kudos: Ohn-gul-wipper, Vitch-huntah und Wee-oh-la-tor]. From soup to nuts: Krauts und Poles: Olsztyn, Poland’s Vader?
Ex facie: Das glaube ich nicht. Natürlich…
When a Death Metal “band” such as Hellas’ Dead Congregation exists, one needeth proffer stiff, saber-toothed motherfuckin’ apologia for dropping so far down the rungs of acceptability’s ladder. Wiwczarek’s vox aint that far from Limp Dickshit locus and he and Stefanowicz are far too intent on whirring like uh cement mixer instead of incessantly tossing the full panoply of palm mutin’/tremolo pickin’/chest beatin’ yee-haws into the fray. And when the keys are spotlighted and vamp it with as much panache as a mall-goth wrecked on hard lemonade, this shit might as well be the [understandably] unheard soundtrack for Halo 3. And there’s a whole ‘nother disc to go…
Nein.
[Stewart Voegtlin]
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