Warkult (Warkult - Malevolent Creation)

Member Name: Frankingsteins

Product:	Warkult - Malevolent Creation
Date:	30/12/08 (13 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Savage.

Disadvantages: Repetitive.

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 the inevitably duller 'Captured.'

As modern thrash-inspired death metal goes, you can't really fault this album apart from its lack of ambition, although it doesn't have quite so many interesting theatrics as the American band's Scandinavian counterparts such as the Crown.

Summary: Malevolent Creation's ninth album (2004).