WEAPON — Embers and Revelations (review)

WEAPON — Embers and Revelations album cover Album · 2012 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
On Embers and Revelations, Weapon play blackened death metal with comparable production values and overall aesthetic to Behemoth, but with a somewhat more old school bent. The Morbid Angel influence is there, but I think Weapon manage to recapture the more direct brutality of acts like Deicide a bit more than Behemoth do. Mysterious drummer The Disciple (Paulus Kressman, if my sources are right) perhaps qualifies as the band's secret weapon here, offering up a ferocious assault packed with surprises and able to change directions and ambush you at a moment's notice. I also appreciate the fact that the band show some discernment about what they actually commit to record, recognising that 37 minutes of solid material is far better than 73 minutes of merely lukewarm stuff. If you want a take on blackened death metal which shows a skilled mastery of the classic death metal sound, you'll probably want to add Weapon to your armoury; it's not doing anything revolutionary but if you dig their influences you'll probably appreciate what they are doing.
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