Weapon of Ascension - Allfather

A friend of mine recently sent me three Canadian black metal releases. This album, Funeral Fog and a Holtforst 7". I was impressed with the last two, but not this one. Strangely enough this band is probably the most talented of the three, but they just don't sound good at all. Very generic and noisy, but in a bad way. This band likes to play as fast and as technical as they can, but they are not very good at it. Don't get me wrong I like extreme stuff, but this left me with a headache after only three tracks. To me it seems insincere and halfhearted. I heard one or two of these dark individuals now play for the joke metal band 3 inches of Blood. That should tell you all you need to know about this release. You would be better off looking elsewhere.

'Weapon of Ascension' is the first and, it seems, last album from Canadian death/black metal band Allfather. Combining the most brutal and violent elements of both metal styles with suitably war-torn lyrics, these eleven short songs - all lasting less than the tedious and unreasonable length of three minutes - make for one of the most relentless and aurally offensive albums I own, but in a good way. This is certainly not an album for all people, tastes or times. The band plays violent death-influenced black metal in the style of Behemoth or the slightly more local Angelcorpse (evidently, America and Canada are the same place in my world view), based entirely ...  Read the complete review