Old Man’s Child
Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion (Century Media)
by Paul Lee
What appears to the outside world as a full group is in reality the one-man black metal band known as Old Man’s Child. The talent behind this “group” is a Norwegian blasphemer known as Galder (also of Dimmu Borgir) and he’s put out another great disc with plenty of catchy metallic songs. Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion continues the terrific traditional metal meets ’90s black metal feeling of OMC’s previous album, Pagan Prosperity. Where bands like Emperor and Enslaved have truly epic, riff-packed songs often surpassing ten minutes, Galder’s are more concise, straight-to-the jugular type of tunes. The elements I enjoy most are the great riffs and his venom-spitting growls with distorted enhancements. All eight songs on Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion are memorable, heavy, and catchy. Yeah, I said catchy, and I mean it. It wouldn’t be hard for Metallica fans to grab a hold of this (not the lamo fans of today’s flaccid Metallicrap though).
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