Rip-roaring, full-frontal, hardcore-singer-trapped-in-a-metal-dude growl. This is the best sounding Malevolent Creation album since their pinnacle, Eternal.
Split (kinda) into power metal on disc one and extreme on disc two, tracked alphabetically per disc, there’s so much to open yer eyes, if yer at all into metal.
Incorporating black metal flourishes along with more intricate song structures, Divine Empire have created a more devastating album than their previous slab.
Malevolent Creation ceased to progress beyond the usual blastbeat/mosh-breakdown-part combination, but I still find myself loyal to every record they put out.
What I thought was one of those tide-me-over EPs turns out to be one of the most black-hearted batteries of brutality to assault these ears in some time.