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Last Updated on 07:16 PM by Lilliana Tseka
Genre: Death Metal
Country: United States
Label: Inferno Records
Year: 2015
Despite the release of 2012’s “Evilution” EP, the American Death metallers Prime Evil missed the spotlight for some years. In order to compensate us and spare our feelings, Prime Evil has finally released their new record “Blood Curse Resurrection”, which is actually their first full length record, even though the band as been re-activated the last five years (Prime Evil was formed in 1984, split up in 1992 and was reformed in 2010).
So, “Blood Curse Resurrection” was released in June by Inferno Records (in digital, CD and cassette format) and consists of 10 amazing tracks. It falls into the category of good and decent comebacks, as the feelings created by the record are mostly positive. The album’s duration, taking into consideration the number of the tracks, is good, as it’s a full half an hour. The atmosphere created is vengeful and filled with hatred towards humanity, with everything it’s consisted of. Musically, it sounds like an elaborate mixture of Death and New Age Black Metal with witty transitions between other genres. Pure violence, with ultra fast guitars and bass that balance between progressive strong compositions and fast / thrashy riffs, machine gun drums that coat the tracks with solid darkness and malicious, full of paranoia vocals, which can give you nightmares. At moments, it feels like their touching the Black Metal genre (i.e. “Plague of Humanity”), while at other points makes you think they’ve added Hardcore-ish Thrash elements to their style (e.g. “Blacken the Sun”). One way or another, the result is more than satisfying and keeps your interest undiminished.
The only negative point on the list is that, despite the fact that all of the tracks have amazing moments and solid structures inspired by different things, when you listen to the tracks one after another, you got the feeling that they are all the same. Even if each track has something different to offer, as a whole, they share the same structure, making them sound like one big track with many parts.
If you are a guitar enthusiast and like perplex guitar work, along with outbursts filled with violence and abhorrence, give it a shot; you’ll be satisfied. You’ll certainly dig it, though I don’t know if it’ll evolve into a classic.
Highlights: Homicidal Assault, Blacken the Sun, Horns of Rapture
4/6
