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Trident: World Destruction Black Metal, Death Metal Regain Records March 22nd, 2010
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Review
World Destruction marks the debut of the Swedish Blackened Death metal outfit Trident, and it's a decent album for what it is. Given the band line-up consisting of Johan Norman of former Dissection fame, as well as Jonas Blom and Ewo Solvelius from Necrophobic, one would expect great things from this semi-super group on this release. While the album doesn't disappoint, it's not quite album of the year material. The music on this release is very dark and fits the mixture of Black Metal and Death Metal perfectly, so once "Jaws of Satan" kicks in you'll be embraced by the very melancholic feel of the material on here. While "Jaws of Satan" is the second track, the first track, "The Trident", just acts as a bit of an introduction to the release and, really, doesn't do anything major and can't quite set the tone or leave you with any real expectations of the album. World Destruction also ends on this same note as "The Trident" with the outro track "Mephisto". Other then that, a good majority of the music is of a mid-tempo pace with a few exceptions here and there where almost all of the track is fast, or it's broken up with really slow sections. Sadly, not many that really stick out on this release since many of the songs sound remarkably similar to each other throughout until the track "Slaves to Anguish", which has the potential to be an amazing track. It has plenty of heavy and blistering moments that will make you want to run to the nearest living thing and beat the living hell out of it, but at the same time those fast moments are just rudely interrupted with much slower moments that seem to try to show off a rather simple guitar riff or throw another musical change up at you to the point where you start to get fed up. As stated, World Destruction is not a bad album, but after a while the guitars will probably drive you mad. There are a few tracks on here, like the title track "World Destruction", that have a lead guitar riff going on, but it clashes so bad with the other guitars in the background, as well as the drumming going on. Either that, or like on the track "", you have drums that can't seem to keep up with the faster guitars. At least the guitar solos on this release are well done, if not rather short sometimes. The biggest downer for this release would have to be the constant change of the music in the songs. This is why many of the tracks are so long, it's as if the band wanted to extend the track, so they took the heavy part of the song that is great, and then just slowed it down to unbelievable lengths. Again, look at "World Destruction" which falls perfect suit to this concept, and even has what sounds like a breakdown going on a little more then half way through, just minus any two stepping that "core" bands would utilize. On your first listen, World Of Destruction will probably not entertain you that much, so give it a few listens before passing judgement. The start of the album is actually a really solid effort and will stick out the most. The only exception to that would be the song "Luciferain Call" which after a while start to just feel drown out and repetative. "Black Velvet Wings" is really where the entertaining tracks start to fade out, with "Blackened Souls" being where the album really just nosedives. Trident does many things successfully, such as create a very fitting dark and dismal feel to the music that might even leave the listener hopeless for a good chunk of the album, showing a lot of promise for this up and coming act. However, if the band were able to focus on writing more tracks like "Jaws of Satan", "Nemesis", or even the high speed intensity of some moments on the title track "World Destruction", the band would be an unstoppable force. Sadly, this release just features a few bad songs, pointless intro and outro tracks, and an insanely long winded track that gets boring after the first few minutes.
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