Warkult - Malevolent Creation

Targeting the listener at the end of a massive gun, Malevolent Creation's ninth album is indeed a fiercer beast than some of their comparatively tame previous albums, but still seems to be trying a little too hard to convince us of its ferocity through the aggressive subject matter, and ultimately this packs nowhere near as good a punch as their first couple of albums. A spoken word oration in 'Dead March' leads nicely in to the energetic and fitting 'Preemptive Strike,' but after this my attention tended to drift through the similarity of style, broken only by touches such as the unexpected melodic dual guitars of 'Murder Reigns' and the slower approach of ...  Read the complete review