The Pitch: Swedish band Reaper deliver raw and ripping blackened thrash metal for Satan himself via Iron Bonehead. FFO: Venom, Rebel Wizard, eary Mayhem
What I Like: Unholy Nordic Noise is absolutely despicable and abhorrent in all of the best ways. The tin can production, the inhumanly croaked vocals, the haphazard punk riffing... all purposefully design to scare off the straights and normies. To all the burgeoning Tipper Gores out there: this is what you get when you try to curb the unstoppable tide of heavy music. "Strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"... or in this case more vitriolic and abrasive. Metal's mission statement of headbanging rebellion is alive and well with Reaper.
Critiques: They're not exactly going to stand out from a crowd, but few really do in this sound.
The Verdict: The album title really says it all. It's unholy, it's noisey, and it oozes with all that the Scandinavian North stands for when it comes to the black metal scene. What else do you need?
Flight's Fav's: Severing Tentacles of Faith, Arctic Wrath - Blood and Bone, Ravenous Storm of Piss
- Review by FlightOfIcarus
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