00:00 - 1. - The Declaration Of War
00:57 - 2. - Storm Of Steel
04:39 - 3. - Fire Storm
07:49 - 4. - The Killing Is Faceless
12:43 - 5. - Under The Sign Of The Iron Cross
18:00 - 6. - Chaos Reigns At Dawn
22:05 - 7. - Through Byzantine Hemispheres
25:08 - 8. - The Red Baron
29:00 - 9. - On Fields Of Death & Desolation
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"God Dethroned" is a black \ death metal band from Beilen, Drenthe, Netherlands formed in 1991.
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In fact the only reason I decided to check out this album was because I was looking for war themed death metal. God Dethroned play blackened death metal so there is an excess (though not in a negative way) of ripping fast riffs and blast beats.
To add some atmosphere the album starts with what sounds like a German radio message as drums and guitars slowing fade in. Storm of Steel is probably the best track on the album though its hard to say because it is all so good here. The riffs while often pretty fast paced are very melodic for the style of metal being played. In fact that is one of the big things I enjoy about UtSotIC, there is so much melody fused with the brutality that the riffs and vocal/lyric lines stick with you long after you've finished listening.
Whats more the album is only 36 minutes long. Tracks like Storm of Steel, Fire Storm, The Killing Is Faceless, and The Red Baron all are memorable headbangers with excellent riffs and face melting lyrics about WWI combat. To add to the combat theme there are small sound bytes taken from Saving Private Ryan of some of the battle scenes. Fire Storm has the sounds of a tank being blown up with machine gun fire in the background, Chaos Reigns At Dawn takes from the scene where the Germans are firing a heavy weapon at allied troops tearing them to pieces. This all adds to the war theme giving an extra bump to the atmosphere.
But there are two really epic tracks here. The self titled song has an excellent clean sung portion in the middle while the drums blast. Soon its over and the song gets back to its massively heavy sound. On Fields of Death and Desolation comes in at 7 and a half minutes with a long intro that builds up to the heavier part. This song isn't so much about being "brutal" or heavy but once the intro is over it definitely displays that. Half way in the song goes back into riffing slowly with harmonized leads in almost the same way it began. There is some pretty nice soloing in this section as well.
Copyright © tcgjarhead, October 28th, 2011 on metallum:
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The title of the first proper track on God Dethroned’s latest - and, sadly, likely final - album describes the music perfectly: this is clearly not meant for the ears of the faint of heart. On the contrary, this is one of the most feral and uncompromising death metal albums I have heard in a while, combining stylistic influences from the old-school European death metal of the early nineties, the more technical approach of the Florida scene and some very fitting black metal overtones (the tremolo picking and melodies in the monumental title track or the closing “On Fields of Death & Desolation” come to mind). This is not an album that reinvents the wheel in any way, nor does it have any aspirations to do so, but rather attempts to pummel the listener into oblivion with a succession of fast, quick-striking death metal tunes - a mission well accomplished, I might add.
This is also an album that should appeal to all you history buffs out there, as the carefully crafted lyrical concept (along with the very tasteful artwork) conveys a haunting and faithful rendition of the defining catastrophe of the twentieth century, the so-called Great War. I for one applaud the band’s decision to choose the First World War as a subject matter and underlying concept for this record instead of World War II, the latter being a topic that has pretty much been beaten to death and, from a historical perspective, is in many ways the direct result of the global armed conflict that preceded it. Speaking of history, has there ever been a more appropriate and meaningful intro than “The Declaration of War”? Featuring a truly foreboding guitar melody and excerpts from a recorded speech held by German Emperor William II, in which he announces Germany’s entry into the war, it perfectly sets the tone for the mayhem that is soon to follow. Many intro songs come across as gratuitous and forgettable, but certainly not this one.
Choicest cuts: Fire Storm, Under the Sign of the Iron Cross (a mind-blowing track, based on a phenomenal lead guitar melody and featuring a passage with clean vocals in the middle that gives it a truly epic feel), The Red Baron (with lyrics on notorious fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen), On Fields of Death & Desolation...
Copyright © lonerider, April 4th, 2012
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