The first track here must be the first song the band ever composed, because it’s a bad indicator of what the bulk of material on this demo has in store for the listener. After a brief foray into a low-tech take on early Morbid Angel, Lord of Plague then launch into two pieces that bring to mind the churning music of Floridian acts such as Monstrosity, Malevolent Creation, or Resurrection.
Thankfully, unlike many bands that attempt this style, Lord of Plague manages to convey some sense of a journey in their music, giving these songs a purpose other than imitating the past. Twisting, tremolo riffing gives way to staccato stops that blossom into fully formed melodies before decaying into a more halted mid-pace, as if reflecting on the preceding conflict.
The cycle of these two sections is then built up into a climax which recapitulates the introduction of the piece. These guys could perhaps focus on more fully working out the deviations from the main themes of their songs in order to create a more vast soundscape in future recordings, but this a strong first effort.
Tags: death metal, lord of plague
Terrible band logo, stupid band name.
Would it be better if they called themselves Lord of All Fevers and Plague?
Exercising a pithiness now both rarely seen and sorely missed, the reviewer carefully separates and then dissects this album’s manifold layers and characteristics. Some are apparently better or more remarkable than others, yet c’est la vie and all that. Such weary resignation leads us to also ponder both the purpose (if any) of life and of this quite frankly inconsequential review. If only Bratt could release those two simple and immutable principles: firstly, that death metal is a zero sum game; and second, that you can’t polish a turd. Better luck next time Bratt: 1.5 horns.
What?
Penis butt.
Power is a zero-sum game. Same is true of market leadership. Hierarchy occurs naturally.
Tbf you have to have a pretty low iq to understand classic extreme metal
Dude, what a coincidence! Everything I don’t like is stupid too.
Low IQs didn’t really make it past hairspray, anabolics and “feelings”. They can’t even recall there was more than mosh-pits, poseurs and rockers-demand-redistribution stuff from back then.
Your average listener wants something they can hum along to.
You mean like the Oscar Mayer weiner song?
Fuckin shut up
you have a mustache, no?
It’s inoffensive but a bit of a Soulside Journey copycat simplified through the lens of Massacre.
It just occurred to me: “Soulside Journey” is SUCH a gay name.
Brett, do you see a close artistic kinship between Atrocity’s Todensgesucht (or whatever) and Oppressor’s Solstice of Oppression? I’ll hang up and listen.
Absolutely not haha
I asked Brett. You don’t know anything. I’ll hang up and listen again.
My mom would probably think they sound similar
They are from the same era when death metal wanted to prove it was not illiterate of music technique and theory, a few years before the jazz fusion guys took over from metal and prog thinking in that area.