Demonic
The Empire of Agony
[Necropolis]


I really liked Demonic's first release, but as expected, this disappoints. They've shed the Burzum style feel for a more high speed sound, and lost everything they had (and it wasn't much really) previously. I think they could have developed from the mCD, but no, instead they go for a hyper speed orgy. A typically worthless, generic, and annoying CD.

Witchdemon's vocals have gone downhill first of all. They don't have that angry screaming quality like on the mCD/demo. They've become more typical and boring. "Shut the fuck up you idiot" are the words coming out of my mouth whenever he opens his. The riffs aren't even here, and the formula they used on the demo/mCD: speed, slow down, keyboard bit, speed, finished, doesn't work here. No sir, this album is fucking terrible.

They even managed to ruin the demo songs here by re-recording them. Maybe the production is just annoying, maybe the band simply stink. I assume it's a combination of the two. Burn boring black metal burn!


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