Hellvetic Frost - Misanthropic Devotion (Album Review)

Tracklist:

1. Drowned by the Floods of Blood   

2. Zorn Der Seel'                     

3. Ravaged Through Sorrow               

4. Remembrance of Ancient Blood                

5. Cursed and Damned in the Mist of the Woods       

6. Scheinbare Erlösung

This is the first full length album after four demos and a split from the now defunct Swiss, hate fuelled black metal two man band Hellvetic Frost, which was comprised of “Pagan Warrior” and “Grim”.

This album starts off with some very strong tracks that immediately grabbed my attention because of their aggressive war and hate driven sound, fueled by impressively raw vocal work from Pagan Warrior and well placed blast beats.

However, as the album progressed the vigour of the first few tracks began to wear off and was quickly replace with repetitive riffs and monotonous blast beats. My patience with the albums fairly unoriginal sound also began to wear thin, considering this album was released in 2007 it provides nothing new to raw black metal, instead just recycles the long played out black metal formula that was created in the 1990’s.  

Overall, despite having a few interesting elements that hint at depressive and atmospheric black metal, this album isn’t worth checking out as a complete listen. Instead I would recommend the first two tracks from this one, as they were nicely crafted and created an interesting sound.