Harkonin
Detest ()
Wydane przez Battlegod Productions//Twilight Vertrieb/Plastic Head Distribution/The End RecordsRok wydania Kraj USANapisał Wouter5
These Missouri black/thrashers take their name from the villainous aristocratic royal house of Frank Herbert's widely acclaimed 1965 sci-fi novel Dune, it is also the sole most interesting thing about this release. "Detest" is an impotent display of lowely thrash with moments of black metal. The performances are commendable across the board and the level of technical skills is far above average. The songwriting however is excrutiatingly mediocre and thoroughly non-descript. This particular style was popularized by acts such as Dissection, Soulreaper and Sacramentum in the mid-to-late '90s and since that time precious few bands were able to recapture the magic these earlier pioneers were able to harness while staying true to the nature of the styles combined. Harkonin don't sound evil enough to fully classify as black metal, neither do they channel the head-on visceral intensity usually associated with thrash metal. The band obviously houses the technical skill to pull off an impressive musical transformation, it just doesn't translate onto something worthwhile on this particular record. "Detest" is pretty much what you make it. Those not well-versed in extreme metal will probably find a lot to like here, which there is. Those that are more experienced, however, might be put off by this record. Harkonin are by no means a terrible band. "Detest" is just a misleading representation of their skills as a collective. Some might find this band's middle-of-the-road approach charming, others will be thoroughly put off by it. It all depends on the forgivingness of the individual listener.
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