THULCANDRA – Fallen Angels Dominion CD
Napalm Records
There are so many new bands out today who claim to be original but are not. Secondly you have these scoundrels in the Metal media masquerading as objectionable reviewers all falling over themselves lying their asses off about said bands. Thankfully this German act is a breath of fresh air and honesty. This band’s goal was to follow in the footsteps of one of their influential Swedish heroes and made no excuses about it. They simply wanted to create a body of work that was extreme blackened death like DISSECTION. They have definitely achieved that on Fallen Angels Dominion. WATAIN will always be the true heirs to the throne of DISSECTION but they are Swedish anyway and don’t sound like em. Out of all the bands of the past who claim to have conjured up the spirit of Jon Nodtveidt with their music (yeah right did your Ouija board tell you that?) THULCANDRA is the only one who I believe have truly done it. This band also has the balls to put their cover version of “The Somberlain” on here.
The thing that makes this release and band so great is that they get what Nodtveidt was doing. You can swing a dead melodic death metal guitarist on a Gothenburg street and hit a band member from a blackened death metal band or a former MARDUK member, whoever screams first. Sure there are plenty of good blackened death metal bands out there and they get the easy parts right. But Nodtveidt added alot of melody and incorporated his love of thrash as well as classic metal from the late 70s early 80s into his compositions. Nodtveidt also added some somber atmospheric elements. This German band does exactly the same thing and what’s better is that it doesn’t sound paint by the numbers. Is it original? Hell no, nothing really is anymore. But if you put this on for your jaded snob of a friend who thinks they know “everything”, and they’re still in their 20s lol, they will swear its some long lost DISSECTION recording. Some people might be offended by that but they’re welcome to their opinion and licking my toilet bowl clean. THULCANDRA haven’t taken the template and pressed the copy button. They’ve reinvented the sound from long ago and have given it new life for fresh ears along with old ones which are not jaded. I’ve also got to give credit to V. Santura, guitarist for DARK FORTRESS and TRYPTYKON who produced this. The sound on here is perfect. He really got the best out of his fellow countrymen.
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