As far as pure vision and scope go, this is the most breath-taking, ambitious, and experimental death metal album this year… and it’s only a side project!
So brutal, but also so funny… Sometimes the distortion’s so heavy and the pace so breakneck, you forget that music this unrelenting can have a lighter side.
Incorporating black metal flourishes along with more intricate song structures, Divine Empire have created a more devastating album than their previous slab.
More teeth-grinding, balls-to-the-wall technical death metal. These Floridian boys have finally snapped out of that “a new album every six years” thing.
Plodding nobly through doomy landscapes, evoking Trouble more than black metal or sludge. Broad strokes of guitar, with the mighty voice of Robert Lowe.