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| Theater of Despair |
This isn't one of those subgenres I dig into too much, because well, it's all been done before.
Enter Violblast. (Let's be honest, that's a difficult name to pronounce.)
These Spaniards have returned to restore my faith in the eldest of the sub-genres. They've recently signed to Hostile Media and we're now on the cusp of their first album for their new imprint.
Theater of Despair has a classic looking album cover with a slight modern update. It features classic imagery and coloration.
We've seen the undead on covers before and the woodcut style of of artwork. Even their logo is heavily influenced by their forebears. But instead of just black and grey, there's the infusion of red. The red makes the dead king's visage more horrible, more conspicuous, and more ghastly.
It's the perfect allegory for the music contained herein. Their guitars sound almost exactly like Slayer's Seasons In The Abyss. It's the thrash metal sound of perfection, but the riffing has death metal complexity and dexterity.
Violblast has hit us with a classic album but they've attached their vessel to modernity and it's bliss.
RELEASE 1/11/19 PREORDER FACEBOOK
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