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<\/a><\/p>\nBelieve me or not, but this is already the 12th album of this Canadian (melodic) death metal combo. They started in 1992 and still their popularity seems to be growing. For a lot of people Summer is barbecue time and what is more metal than inviting all your friends to listen to the new album of Kataklysm, firing up the grill and serving some fine meat with two hot Kataklysm sauces called ‘Ghost Fire’ and ‘God’s Fury’ on top? As icing on the cake you extinguish the burning taste in your friends mouth with treating Kataklysm’s own\u00a0beer called ‘St. Tabarnak’, containing 6,66% alcohol!\u00a0\u00a0As a band you can arrest attention with products like sauce and beer, but what still counts is the music, without good music the fans will disappear anyway.\u00a0Fortunately Kataklysm is still a band that delivers and the other stuff is just a nice by-product.<\/p>\n
The CD opens with a spoken part from the movie ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ and continues with a melodic death metal riff. The first\u00a0two songs have elements of Amon\u00a0Amarth in them. The first track is more straightforward whilst the second song has more groove\u00a0and thrashy riffs. Singer Maurizio Lacono barks and spits out his grunting vocals like a preacher on a Sunday morning.\u00a0The songs have a lot of variety, besides the melodic death parts, “Thy Serpents Tongue” even sounds\u00a0like technical death metal. The hyper blasts we know from earlier albums are still there too, just listen to\u00a0the last track and “Thy Serpents Tongue”.\u00a0In “Hate Spirit” they even create a little\u00a0bit of black metal atmosphere, which shows again the variety in\u00a0the music. As closing piece all styles come together in the kind of epic song with the name “The World Is A Dying Insect”. The perfect finale of a good album.<\/p>\n