Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam (Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam - Gorgoroth)

Member Name: Frankingsteins

Product:	Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam - Gorgoroth
Date:	11/07/08 (33 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Competent performance.

Disadvantages: Lacking in ideas.

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 than an interesting diversion. As full-pelt extreme metal, the album's only option for diversity is to slow down, and the result is the rather dull 'Sign of an Open Eye,' led by an ominous lead guitar but boasting little else of interest. This is a competent but unexciting release.

1. Wound Upon Wound
2. Carving a Giant
3. God Seed (Twilight of the Idols)
4. Sign of an Open Eye
5. White Seed
6. Exit
7. Untamed Forces
8. Prosperity and Beauty

Summary: Gorgoroth's seventh album (2006).