This German band offers an interesting late entry in 2024's releases. They open things up in a more post-rock fashion. Then blast off into a crusty take on black metal that is not unlike what Ragana does. Their layered vocals bring out the more well-encrusted edges of their sound and give it more punk roots. Melody is retained in the process that pays off in the songwriting dept. The second song finds them angrier. It launches into a more feral blast of black metal, with the vocals arranged in more of a call-and-response fashion with hard-core punches accenting things.
Not the best production I've heard on an album this year, but that gives it some of its charm. They get a great deal of credit for being willing to break away from the rowdy hard-core punk throwdowns to use atmosphere and nuanced guitar to create more dynamics than most bands doing this sort of thing. The subtle use of samples works well. "Drexekutive" finds them sonically touching on screamo, which is not far removed where the sounds they work with. When they are at their most explosive as a band the results are not as impressive, as they sound more like everyone else than when they think out of the box and allow things to simmer
The band's female singer, makes her most noteworthy performance on the last song, as she sings with a more emotive intensity to her voice leading into the song, before it erupts into the screaming this album has conditioned you to expect from it. These guys have a great deal of potential, I find the female vocalist the most interesting of the two, and the guitars are very well thought out, I will give this album an 8.5,
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