Review of Desaster - "The Oath of an Iron Ritual"
UNAPOLOGETICALLY EVIL
By: Geoff Teach
It has been four long years since the blackened-thrash colossus known as Desaster delivered a new album to the world. But in April of 2016, the German quartet brought forth their latest collection of atramentous anthems, The Oath of an Iron Ritual (Metal Blade Records), and to put it succinctly, Desaster are back with an unholy vengeance.
Assimilating elements of their influences such as Venom, Hellhammer, and Destruction, Desaster is vicious, malicious, and unapologetically evil; and The Oath of an Iron Ritual prominently displays these traits throughout its eleven infernal tracks. Intense and spellbinding, Desaster’s newest effort is something no self-respecting metal head should miss.
The Oath of an Iron Ritual blasts off like a demon shot out of a cannon with “Proclamation in Shadows”, and after this nearly six-minute thrashing, it only gets better from there. Some of the other more sumptuously sinister highlights from The Oath of an Iron Ritual include “End of Tyranny”, the dynamic and protracted “Haunting Siren”, “Damnatio ad Bestias”, the diabolical title-track “The Oath of an Iron Ritual”, and the seven-minute closer (and personal favorite of mine) “At the Eclipse of Blades”.
By and large, Desaster’s The Oath of an Iron Ritual is stunningly good. If you dig your thrash metal crazed, crafty, and fiendish, then this is the shit for you! (To order a copy of your own, just follow the links provided below.)
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