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Old Man's Child: Slaves Of The World Melodic Black Metal Century Media Records May 19th, 2009
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Review
One band you can always count on for some truly evil black metal is, of course, Old Man's Child. The recent releases from this solo act from Galder (who is better known for his time in Dimmu Borgir) have not let down. To make it simple, the trend continues with the latest release under this name, Slaves Of The World. The music found on this album is absolutely crushing, right from the start. "Slaves Of The World" is a great track, but in comparison to some of the others on here, such as "Unholy Foreign Crusade", the song feels rather weak. "Saviours Of Doom" does feature a heavily distorted and echoed introduction as far as the vocals go, will leave you asking "The hell?". The song also has an instrumental bridge about three fourths of the way in, prodiminantly with keyboards, they just seems to come up out of nowhere. It doesn't really do much to damage the song, and much like the weird echoed screaming intro, it's just there. One of the nicer parts of the album is the inclusion of keyboards, but not to the point where every track has an over the top keyboard medley. "Unholy Foreign Crusade" has a very nice keyboard part at the start of the song, and some of the other tracks on here, such as "Path Of Destruction", will feature the keyboards in the music only at specific times, often during a bridge, or in the case of this song, during the chorus, to add ambiance to the music and give it a rather creepy sound. This release also features some nice guitar riffs scattered about in the songs. A good deal of them are just your traditional black metal riffs, but sometimes you'll be given some killer technical riffs like on "The Spawn of Lost Creation", "On The Devil's Throne" and "Servants Of Satan's Monastery". Slaves Of The World is a crushing album, but, one thing you'll pick up on is that many of the tracks on here will just sporadically change melody, or have keyboards randomly appear for no reason which changes the entire sound of that part up. While those random additions of the keyboards don't really affect the music, and often aid the songs, such as on "Ferden Mot Fienden's Land", the random change ups in the actual music, aside for the use of ambiance, or a solo, will annoy you after time. Another problem the album faces is that some of the songs on here just have simple, traditional black metal riffs that grow to be boring after time. But, when you just sit down and take Slaves Of The World, you will agree that the album is great. While it isn't another Vermin, it still has plenty of songs that will crush your soul and have you banging your head as if you should be wearing a helmet. Slaves Of The World is a nice departure from some of the stuff that has appeared on previous albums, even if it does hold a feel of Dimmu Borgir in the music this time around, and with a little more work, this change could be for the better with the next Old Man's Child release.
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