Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam - Gorgoroth

Gorgoroth's seventh album will doubtless please those who enjoy their metal loud, hard and discordant, but in wandering ever further from their black metal origins, this is only going to be a disappointment for long-time fans. The riffs owe more to traditional death metal than black metal, the only exceptions being 'White Seed' and 'Exit' later in the album which return to the fast, blasting style with charmingly poor production quality. The palm-muted death metal riffs of songs like opener 'Wound Upon Wound' possess none of the creativity of the band's earlier days under Infernus' direction, and the slower sections now feel shoehorned and predictable, rather ...  Read the complete review