Swedish blackened thrash with some death metal DNA; has a decent production, and a few nods to Exodus in this particular track. ;) Got a great solo too! Different vocalist from the first four albums, took me a little to get used to when listening to the rest of the album bit it absolutely fits.
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Haha yes I picked up on the reference to Strike of the Beast in the lyrics.
No nazi messaging BS, though, right? Always a crap shoot. 😅😶
Apart from the name of the album itself, and the strong imagery, this band does not hold bigotry of that nature. At least according to any research I’ve done. Rest assured I will personally never promote or post here any bands who actually do follow that type of shit. I’ll repeat here that I used to adore Iced Earth’s first handful of albums but since January 2021 I’ve dropped them from all lists, and have encouraged others to do the same.
Edit: Found this interesting list with bands and their status of any ties to nazi ideology. Bathory has a “Mild Sketch” status:
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“Bathory has an unresolved history of using fascist symbols and iconography, such as the infamous sunwheel on the back of Hammerheart. Quorthon was also confirmed to hold conservative views. That being said, many of the symbols that they used such as runes were done in the context of ancient Norse and Viking cultural references, and Quorthon’s political beliefs were inconsistent with fascism. He believed that the church stifled human progress, Nazism should not be mixed with Odinism, metal music and subculture are inconsistent with National Socialist views and would not exist in a fascist society, and that Filipinos dying of natural disasters and Africans dying of starvation should be seen as a tragedy at least on the level of 9/11.”
Which makes me raise an eyebrow a bit as I’ve posted here a few stuff from Bathory.
Actually upon further reading, the vocalist here (named Legion) on this Witchery album used to be in Marduk, who’ve had members (vocalist Mortuus and drummer Fredrik Widigs) purchase merch and memorabilia from Swedish neo-nazi group Nordic Resistance Movement. Not sure how close it is to our band Witchery here, but I’ll definitely be more cautious moving forward.
Edit for clarification on which vocalist did a no-no.
Damn. I was honestly hoping I could finally relent a bit on my stringent filtration of any/all metal w/ non-zero risk of fucknut. 🤦🏼♂️
Ah, well. Thanks for looking into it, and sorry to point out the rice is maggots. 😅
Believe me, after my commitment to post at least once a day here, I’ve run into many hiccups with garbage ideology! It seems the rice being maggots is common with this shitty tapioca from the cloaca of life.
That was the name of my vegan punk band.
