7/10
Guess what? This sounds like At The Gates with maybe a dash of Arch Enemy. While that’s a welcome relief for those of us who know that the likelihood of a new At The Gates record is about as likely at this point as a Cliff Burton solo project, it’s hard to make the case that this is particularly inspired or original. While it is thoroughly br––al and thoroughly aggr––ve, and the band does hail from Sw–––n, recommending this for anything more than a stroll down Slaughter of the Soul lane is hard. Certainly everything’s a little derivative but there are signs here that Sw––ish d––h m––l is going the way of Hollywood––recycling old ideas with slightly more palatability and far less of the ingenuity involved in the original. Boo hoo? Maybe. Exciting? Definitely not. A phenomenon that scribes like us can stop with a bad review? Not.––––––––––––––––––––––Jedd Beaudoin
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