Album Type: Full
Length
Date Released: 05/08/2017
Label: Transcending
Obscurity
Rogga Johansson shows no sign of
letting up at all; another album, another line up, another master class in
Swedish death metal. This is absolutely business as usual for Paganizer,
possibly the finest and purest exponents of this type of metal around. Highly
recommended.
“Land of Weeping Souls
1). Your Suffering Will
Be Legendary
2). Dehumanized
3). Forlorn Dreams
4). Land of Weeping
Souls
5). The Insanity Never Stops
6). Selfdestructor
7). Death Addicts
Posthumous
8). The Buried Undead
9). Soulless Feeding
Machine
10). Prey to Death
The Review:
Paganizer return with this first
full length since 2013. This pleases me immensely, as they have been consistent
purveyors of the finest Swedish Death Metal for close to twenty years. This
record does not disappoint at all. After the exhaustively excellent “Twenty Years In A Terminal Grip” best of
and the superb “On The Outskirts of Hades”
EP, I thought the band were going to deliver.
Sure
enough, they have. Impressively. You get rolling blasts, thrash pacing,
chainsaw riffing and reassuringly deathly vocals, and all that in opener “Your Suffering Will Be Legendary”! The
band don't put a foot wrong over the course of these ten tracks; “Dehumanized” is as dark as it is
pacey, rolling bass drums are a feature of “Forlorn
Dreams”, the lead work is fantastic throughout, the sound is great and
vicious.
Truly,
Paganizer
are still at the top of their game and are as devastating as ever. What shines
through on the album is the song writing. Paganizer know how to write great death metal
and also to make some oddly catchy hooks here and there, to go with
surprisingly catchy riffs. The title track is an effective demonstration of the
band's power, while “The Insanity Never
Sleeps” has got everything any fan of real Swe-death could want- including the
sound of a gun being cocked (essential to a death metal album).
The
latter half of the album is just as intense and just as gnarly; “Selfdestructor” allows for a slithering
opening riff before more choppy fair comes in. There is no let up through the remaining
four tracks, either; “Death Addicts
Posthumous” is thrashy stuff and “The
Buried Undead” is very deathly indeed (kind of like Bolt Thrower, but sped up a
little). “Soulless Feeding Machine”
and “Prey To Death” deliver two
sharp shots of death to finish this
impressive set.
Rogga
Johansson shows no sign of letting up at all; another album, another line up,
another master class in Swedish death metal. This is absolutely business as
usual for Paganizer,
possibly the finest and purest exponents of this type of metal around. Highly
recommended.
“Land of Weeping Souls
FFO:
Grave, Down
Among The Dead Men, Ribspreader, Entrails
