Tracklist:
1. Evocation
Under Starlit Sky
2. Fractured
Skull
3. Consumed
by Flames
4. New
Golgotha Rising
5. Culling
Species
6. Passage
to New Creed
7. Final
Hours of Sacrifice
This is
the latest full length from the long running Finnish solo black metal project Clandestine Blaze, and see’s Mikko Aspa returning once again to
provide his personal style of death metal influenced old school black metal.
Considering
Clandestine Blaze is just one man, this
album has an impressively broad sound that gives the impression of multiple musicians
that is often hard to capture with solo projects.
However, despite
the sound being well crafted and nicely mixed, and Aspa providing some
interesting riff and vocal work the overall feel of the album was of vague disappointment
that it provided nothing we haven’t already seen.
There was
not any particular stand out tracks that sparked my interest, apart from
perhaps Culling Species which has a
dark raw hymn like quality that I did find fairly appealing. The final track on
the album Final Hours of Sacrifice I
found to be very monotonous and was only impart saved by Aspa’s raw vocals.
Overall
this is by no means a bad album, I just feel like I have heard it before a
number of times and am personally becoming a little tired of this particular style.
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