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Golgothian
Denial is a two-piece Michigan-based black metal ensemble. "The
Reign of Hatred" is the bands' first official release. These
two individuals are extremely talented musicians. Actually, GD have
rather distinguishable roots, anything from 80's thrash to 90's death
and black metal. Although, the production is rather tacky most of
the way through the disc. I gotta tell ya, without such a lacking
production job on this disc... these guys are VERY good to say the
least. It isn't even really that this is a huge problem, but "amateurly-mastered"
is more like it. Anyways, enough about that. They have an uncanny
resemblance to bands like Sadus and have the grimness of a band like
say- Beherit. I hear loads of guitar soloing, some extremely well
placed drum blasting, and a modestly grim black metal voice with some
occasional whispery death rasping. Most of the time, these guys throw
some very technical stuff at you. The duo have some needed work ahead
of them, but they seem to know the direction they want to go. Once
they polish things a bit, they will turn a lot of heads. Keep Golgothian
Denial in mind! Maybe...a future black metal version of Arsis? Rating: 68 Reviewed By: Thomas Mitchell |
