Servants
Nekrokraft
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June 2, 2018
Here we are again in the Swedish industry to talk about the release of Black / Thrash and Death Metal Nekrokraft and the album Servants released on May 4, 2018 by The Sign Records, marking the band's second full-length and a great evolution in my opinion since Will the 'Wisp 2016, so if you have been two years and let's start with the quick' Mouth ov Ahriman 'and for sure this is the perfect demonstration of the mix of styles that have been absorbed. Linköping's band combines themes from Babylonian mythology and Scandinavian folklore with melodies and atmospheres, absurd vocals from Angst that also has its voice for the Witchery band, in a big-fat greasy aggression in the best sense of the word, develops in an almost epic way until Lechery where the drum lines reign at an energetic and heavy frequency that attracts the listener immediately, and it's really good the way the guitars fit it all bringing in a miscellany with Scandinavian sounds and down to more lines frenetic.
Coming to "Servants ov the Black" we find a mix of excellent quality Death with diffused Angst vocals penetrated by the density that Moloch drums ensures with the pulsation of the narrow paths of Ghol's bass, it becomes a compact sound while the guitars race aggressively over all of this. I must admit that I really like the many influences that bands like these absorb, and it is not surprising that tracks like "Rotten Husk" bring a hint of KREATOR and the explosion of guitars through this compact, bass and vocal trio makes it the really interesting stuff, so the curiosity of it is live. At times we found salty heavy metal blasts fired before Angst's aggressive grunts.
Contrary to the previous tracks "Eternal, I Am" brings slower elements but far from having less fury in its sonic body, the implementation of organ with twinkling lines of guitars make this track a curious experience about the band in live action, then fall in "Dance ov the Nekrolythes" with its narcotic riffs is a pleasant moment, and the atmosphere is slightly behind this block of weight, everything sounds like a great sound wall and the tone below the vocal makes everything definitely highlighted and seems to produce an extra charge anger.
We closed this pulsating album in "Plague" and its invocation drums that decay smoothly on a tender landscape almost distant from the rest of the album, and although the battery still presents an abrupt energy the beginning of this song is melodious decaying in a little time to the last beat of this one album, choirs are also tenebrous and the guitars provide a reflective aura while the anger stays there, the feeling is that the album has life because it is so perfectly willing to the listener that the only thought is in the performance of this band on stage. With the last bells of the bells we closed this album with highlight for "Gateway to Damnation" and "Brimstone and Flames".
8 / 10
Excellent
Songwriting
Musicianship
Memorability
Production
"Servants" Track-listing:
1. Mouth ov Ahriman
2. Lechery
3. Gateway to Damnation
4. Servants ov the Black
5. Rotten Husk
6. Brimstone and Flames
7. Eternal, I Am
8. Dance ov the Nekrolythes
9. Plague
Nekrokraft Lineup:
Angus "Angst" Norder - Vocals
Dennis "Iron" Karlsson - Guitar
Timmy "Doc" Rustan - Guitar
Andreas "Ghol" Lagung - Bass
Simon "Moloch" Holmberg - Drums
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