Valkyrja Album Review
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Band Name: Valkyrja
Album Name: Contamination Rating: 4 / 5 User Rating: 0 / 5 Label: Metal Blade Records Buy Album: Amazon.com Rate Album: Rate |
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Tracklist 1 Advent… 2 Oceans to Dust 3 Catharsis (Contaminate the Earth) 4 Solstice in Withdrawal 5 Laments of the Destroyed 6 Ambience of the Dead 7 The Womb of Disease 8 Welcoming Worms 9 A Cursed Seed in the World 10 The Adversarial Incentive Within All |
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Swedish black metal mob Valkyrja return hot on the heels of Metal Blade's re-release of the THE INVOCATION OF DEMISE with another whirlwind of blistering black metal entitled CONTAMINATION. This misanthropic 10-track entity showcases this Scandinavian squad's rekindled relentless intensity, boiling over with an evil intent and summoning a darker set of spirits for this quartet to broadcast their dastardly demonic wrath with ("Welcoming Worms"). Fluctuating between warped tremolo blasts, memorably majestic riffs and powerful and precise guitarwork locking in with a rampaging rhythm section while an aptly suited raspy roar leads the entire punishing processions through creepy catacombs and barren ice fields ("Solstice in Withdrawl"), this troupe's dead-on black metal belligerence, while easy to trace, is as authentic as it gets. Despite lacking derivation from a checklist of obvious influence's catalogs, Valkyrja present a durable slab of hostility with the detail-attentive structures and beefed-up songwriting ardently demonstrating a band with a comprehensive understanding of the extreme. Review by: Mike SOS Read Member Reviews |
