Reviews
2010-02-01
Canada's
Reverend Kill were founded in 2004, and since then released two full length albums, 2005's self-titled debut, and 2008's His Blood, Our Victory.
Basically, their music can be described as death metal, but unlike like what their cover might suggest, this isn't a blackened-death brutal piece of work, but rather a melodic death metal album, mostly mid-paced, quite well played and ably produced.
The album's 2009 re-release see the band get a re-worked logo and some solid cover work, that – as good as they are, might cause some confusion with listeners expecting a black metal album, musically – Reverend Kill are closest to the Melodic Viking metal of Sweden's Amon Amarth, minus the grandiose production and Viking song themes.
The band has some talent, the deep death growls of vocalist Graham Harris are a definite plus, and also the solid drumming and good melody lines the guitarists are able to produce in such tracks as the second one – Trapped In Amber.
This might not have the impact that a new Amon Amarth album might have, and the name and concept of the band perhaps need a clearer and more defined image, both musically and genre-wise, but there is certainly a lot to work with, good musicianship, solid writing ability, with a clearly limited budget – these guys did produce quite a good album here.
Alon Miasnikov
