NEGATOR – Panzer Metal CD
Remedy Records
Holy shit, it’s MARDUK with Legion back on vocals. I know some people who wish for that to happen. Yeah right just keep that candle burning in your window, Legion is with WITCHERY now. This is the third full length from this German band but their last one, Die Eisernen Verse, came out back in 2005. I never heard it so comparisons are nil. All I can say is that Panzer Metal sounds like MARDUK if they would’ve done just one more release with Legion, then again maybe not because this sounds better. I’ll even toss in some DARK FUNERAL just to give a full nod to Swedish black metal. Remember these guys are German but have totally tossed aside their heritage in blackness and opted to copy the template of someone else. Oh well happens here in the states all the time.
To their credit NEGATOR really bring back the mid 90’s impact of Swedish black metal to the point where you would think this is some long lost gem albeit with incredible production. The sound on here is so clean you could eat off of it. Music wise it’s a fuckin relentless blitzkrieg, pardon the pun, even on the moments where they do slow things down it’s still a forced march in jack boots over your skull. There are no melodies and absolutely no atmospheric breaks which is something mid-period MARDUK fans of yore wish for. (Personally I like MARDUK from the beginning to their present releases, fuck you.) I don’t mind a band steeped in nostalgia as long as they’re as good and explosive as this. Listening to this is like sitting in a grandstand somewhere watching tanks roll over people, which is a twist on monster truck shows.
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