I'm not really sure why, but about 6 months I picked up their Necophobic's MCD "Spawned By Evil" and listened repeatedly to their new track. "Darkside" finally arrives, and I find that great feeling that their one song gave me on the MCD is somwhat lost.
Reviewing something that is nothing more than average and has little to nothing unique is very difficult. Everything about "Darkside" is so common that the album is somewhat boring. I suppose if you like black metal then you'll assuredly enjoy this. But even so, this lacks the true creativity and layering of sound that most black metal contains.
The guitars continue to endlessly pump out the same riff and, when they do chance a transition, it is so badly executed that it would have been better just to completely stop and not attempt one. Their technical ability with a piano, as evident on "Vanasectio", is better than the guitar.
Complete with the hyper speed and unoriginal drumming and riffing that helped make bands like Ancient popular, Necrophobic's "Darkside" is overall just not an interesting album.
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