The delicate birdsong and ambience of nature that is ‘Intro’ belies the thunderous metal maelstrom that constitutes the nine songs on the album. The lyrics aren’t just audible, but are clear: against double-pedalled bass drum and a blurring tapestry of guitars, Aldrahn details scenes of lands laid to waste, treachery and betrayal. There’s an undeniable theatricality about it all, but that’s all part of what makes this the album it is.
It’s not all about pace, either: ‘Dynamic Underworld’ slows to a dirge, the drums a funeral march beneath glacial guitars. In terms of production, the bass is all but lost in a mesh of treble, the top-end sharp enough to slice the top off your skull. Through it, moments of anguished beauty emerge, as on ‘Making Me’.
But of course for the most part, ‘Deep Drone Master’ is all about driving power and raging fury, death, destruction and demons. Just the way it should be.
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