Aaaahrghhh, my sweet Desaster! Creators of one of my all-time favourite albums, A Touch Of Medieval Darkness (1995), and owners of lots of other ex-cel-lent releases in between their formation during the end of the eighties and their actual presentation. Deutsche Gründlichkeit!
A new epos, done by Odin (b), Infernal (g), Tormentor (d) and Sataniac (v), with Teutonic harshness and Barbaric mercilessness. Hail the goat!
First of all: it took too long, much too long. Guys, don’t do this again, having me waiting for such a long time. I was about to kneel with a prayer on my lips to ask some godly entity to give me some f*cking sign about your presence. Never again, years of ignorance and inquietitude…
Forty seven minutes it takes, this new piece of Grandeur. And for the first time in years, this album goes way back to the band’s roots. Seriously, The Arts Of Destruction sounds as if it could / would have been the successor of A Touch … (although the mini-album Stormbringer and the second full length, Hellfire’s Dominion, are worthy candidates too). The epic melodies that did characterise Desaster’s debut have never completely been ignored in the past, yet never they have been presented so prominently as now. Can you hear me trying not to shout out loudly?...
Desaster’s Black / Thrash Metal breathes the essence of the earliest years, and then I’m really referring to the very beginning of these mostly wonderful tunes of ear drum pleasure – i.e. the likes of Bathory, Destruction, Sodom, Hellhammer, Slayer, Possessed, Kreator etc. But at the same time, Desaster perform with a persuasive craftsmanship only possible nowadays if the members ARE into the whole, and Hell yeah, these four sweeties are. Besides, this album is the most varying one to date, still without betraying any characteristic element, and it is another result of a collective that is able to put an own mark on an overcrowded scene.
Again, balancing in between fast, neck-breaking Speed-assaults, heavily pounding thrashers and victorious epics. And again, another continuously strengthened vocal effort of Sataniac!
As mentioned before, this album is the most A Touch Of Medieval Darkness-oriented album to date, so bla and bla and even more bla!
No exaggeration or brain-insulting, no fake would-be attitude, just pure and true, honest Old School Epic / Thrash / Black Superiority of the highest order! Hail!!!