Trident – World Destruction
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
Label: Regain Records
So Johan Norman of Soul Reaper and Dissection fame runs into Alexander Friburg from Juggernaut and Karneywar and they decide to start up a band. Call up Necrophobic’s throatworker Tobias, a drummer named Jonas, and eventually an unknown guitarist named Ewo, and they’ve got a full lineup. And with that lineup they create an album that is some seriously creepy sounding blackened death metal.
Riffs are fast and furious, with leads that sometimes go a bit slower, to lead you along. The drums are blasting like motherfuckers, and Tobias is a wonderful vocalist for this band. It’s like all the great things about Belphegor, Dissection, and Ackercocke mixed with some Behemoth and Morbid Angel, and retaining that sense of melodicism and brutality that only the Swedish have mastered.
My favorite tracks are “Jaws of Satan”, “Black Velvet Wings”, “Slaves to Anguish”, and the gorgeous super Swedish sounding instrumental track “Blackened Souls”. But of course, what band has a title track that doesn’t kick ass? Because “World Destruction” as a song is unfuckingreal.
This is one band that is not fucking around, and I don’t think that they’re going anywhere but up in the metal world. Taking us to hell every step of the way. And I know i’m going to love the journey.
8.5 out of 10.
