This band comes close to being the worst of the entire Last Episode lot, and that's a task which is seriously difficult to achieve. I wasn't sure if I'd ever find a German band worse than Mystic Circle but I'd like to congratulate Dunkelgrafen for blowing that fear completely out of the water and releasing almost 44 mind-numbing minutes of the worst "black metal" ever put into recording. Maybe these guys have finally figured out that if we want people whispering in our ears we'll have our girlfriends do it, because there's now so much reverb on the vocals (ten times as much as before even) I feel like I'm walking through a fucking cave and these stale melodic riffs have been recycled only around 6000 times. In addition the song names are retarded and it's no wonder there's no inspiration performing tracks as stupidly entitled as these because nobody will really want to hear them anyway.

The third album now, and absolutely no signs of improvement. If anything Dunkelgrafen are moving backwards down the scale and Last Episode are a bunch of corporate thriving Christians that actually laugh at the fact they sell thousands of releases from terrible bands. Stop supporting this pathetic label.

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