In faster songs sometimes a slight Legion of the Damned resemblance appears; thrash metal with screaming black vocals. ‘Smell of Blood’ and ‘Impaler Prince’ are examples of this, but Necrodeath never keeps on full speed an entire song. Every song has many parts where they slow it down to show their more melodic side. So Necrodeath is more varied than a, let’s just stick to the example above, Legion of the Damned, but this doesn’t mean that they sound more interesting. There was not one moment that even a small tent was erected in my pants, and that’s a bad sign. I was really giving up hope when their urge for a varied sound ended up in the awful Venom cover ‘Countess Bathory’ and the slow ‘V.T.1476’ with horrible clean gothic-like female vocals.

 

Necrodeath presents us a balanced record of thrash, black and death, but doesn’t manage to be of such a quality that this one sticks in my CD player for a while. In spite of this mix of genres I had to put this up the pile of uninteresting releases pretty soon.