Serenity In Fire picks right up from where it's predecessor "Shadows And Dust" left. The biggest and best difference is the songs and production. As usual Guitarist and Producer J-F Dagenais tweaked the knobs ever so sweetly to sonically torture all who dare to listen to this molten slab of metallic extremity.
The songs are as catchy as a Brittany Spears number one hit, at least as far as metal goes! HAHA Seriously though, the choruses to these tunes will drill into your brain with ease and stay there like that earwig thing in that Star Trek "The Wrath Of Kahn" movie.
So if you want an extreme metal album you can actually remember then check this album out.
Oh there are blast beats as expected but they are kept in check and employed only when needed. Chunky, fat, chugga chugga guitars meld with the drums and bass with machine like precision. Vocals are death style but intelligible. There are black metal screeches that double up on the death style sometimes and a flavor of clean, but not squeaky clean, vocals pop up too.
Really what Katakylsm have done is to zero in on how to make a blistering extreme metal album that contains melody, catchy hooks, and utter brutality. Beauty and the Beast if you will, all wrapped up in one flawless album.
Old fans of the band will no doubt love it and hordes of new fans, like myself, are sure to dig this effort from these northland (Canada) extremers! So mark another notch in the belt of the Canadian metal scene for raising and keeping the bar high for quality metal music.
If you enjoyed Arch enemy's last rant then you'd have no problem getting into this.
The Ambassador Of Pain,
As I Slither, and
Serenity In Fire are my personal picks for standout tracks but they all kill and there is not an ounce of filler present.
The album, like I said before, is flawless! Under our rating system though i can't give a 10 because it doesn't rate as masterpiece status simply for the reason that it is not astoundingly new to extreme metal and it doesn't represent a pioneering milestone in this style. It is however at the top of the heap and will make my favs list of 2004 for sure. So i will get as close as i can and rate this beast a 9.5/10
There is a full length, quality sounding mp3 on the
web site for you to DL and check out and i think you'll agree this band is tight and the musicianship stellar. I can guarantee if you like that song you will like the whole album!
Written by
David Thursday, June 3, 2004
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