It could be argued that there is nothing new in music: everything is a re-creation, a re-invention of what has gone before. It's all about variations upon a theme... Now, I'm no musicologist - I'm just a fan who writes about music - but my take on it is this: all music has a basic structure,It could be argued that there is nothing new in music: everything is a re-creation, a re-invention of what has gone before. It's all about variations upon a theme… Now, I'm no musicologist – I'm just a fan who writes about music – but my take on it is this: all music has a basic structure, just like a building… It's what you do with that structure that makes the subsequent result unique: but, at the same time, it is how you pay homage to, and respect, the basic structures in order to make the subsequent result what it needs to be … and hopefully one which does not collapse, ignominiously, around everyone concerned. Unfortunately, this debut abum – by a band made up of members of Enforcer and Nefilheim – is one inglorious, completely fucked up example of how to pay homage but not respect (or maybe the other way 'round) but at the same time despoil the altars of the gods it claims to worship. Not only does it intially sound like a poor man's version of Iron Maiden's first demos, but it plumbs the depths even further by plainly copying Urchin and White Spirit – bands who [...]
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