{"id":104380,"date":"2024-11-21T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104380"},"modified":"2024-12-17T15:18:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:18:39","slug":"album-review-unholy-night-atomic-sorcery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-unholy-night-atomic-sorcery\/","title":{"rendered":"UNHOLY NIGHT – Atomic Sorcery (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNHOLY NIGHT
Atomic Sorcery<\/strong><\/span>
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Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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With their brand of blackened speed metal, Russian combo Unholy Night unleashes a furious barrage to herald the arrival of a debut full-length album five years after forming, with the clan of vocalist Adok, guitarist Lepeha, bassist Meshok and drummer Losos\u2019 more than likely worshiping at the altar of black leather, alcohol and metal gods Venom.<\/p>\n

I recall Unholy Night\u2019s 2020 Succubus<\/em> EP featuring track titles such as \u2018Evil Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll\u2019, \u2018Straight To Hell\u2019, \u2018Mark Of The Beast\u2019 and \u2018Infected With Mayhem\u2019, so it\u2019s no surprise that Atomic Sorcery<\/em> comes fully armoured with similar, although somewhat more abrupt titles such as \u2018Immolation\u2019, \u2018Possessed\u2019 and \u2018Ancient Rites\u2019. However, the best track title has to be \u2018Boogie On The Grave\u2019 which is matched wondrously by its riotous musical design plucked straight from Satan\u2019s scrap yard.<\/p>\n

With its cauldron of rust n\u2019 beer, Atomic Sorcery<\/em> is the type of album that teenage metalheads light fires and drink fake blood to, just like I did back in 1987. Opener \u2018Immolation\u2019 shoots out of the traps as if it were Satan\u2019s snapping hellhound with a rocket up its arse. The vocals are throaty gasps of razor blade swallowing quality as the Moscow-based band fuses together a smoking amalgamation of grinding punk and black n\u2019 roll. The title cut is as equally insane in its demonic rattling as if one has spent too long at the Mot\u00f6rhead and Venom after party due to too much alcohol consumption with Bulldozer.<\/p>\n

As the album scurries through your eardrums it\u2019s not exactly easy to define one song from another because their aim is to simply mow you down like a mob of agitated, speeding Hells Angels. \u2018Gears\u2019 is a rampant steaming heap of menacing black thrash, but where the posse does start to get its hooks in is by providing twisted riffery, such as with \u2018Time To Kill\u2019 and the Slayer<\/a>-esque \u2018Possessed\u2019.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a degree of oily slickness to every galloping thread, to every snarling bass line and to every grim riff as Unholy Night poison the air with satanic filth so that the already leaden clouds grow darker. When \u2018Louder, Angrier\u2019 has had its demented way with your membranes the grip of Satan tightens and there\u2019s just no escaping the evil of Unholy Night.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UNHOLY NIGHTAtomic Sorcery Motorpunk \/ Soundage Productions \/ Segacore Production (2024)Rating: 7\/10 With their brand of blackened speed metal, Russian combo Unholy Night unleashes a furious barrage to herald the arrival of a debut full-length album five years after forming, with the clan of vocalist Adok, guitarist Lepeha, bassist Meshok and drummer Losos\u2019 more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5850],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-unholy-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104391,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104380\/revisions\/104391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}