{"id":105392,"date":"2025-08-29T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105392"},"modified":"2025-09-15T12:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:06:36","slug":"album-review-deathhammer-crimson-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-deathhammer-crimson-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"DEATHHAMMER – Crimson Dawn (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEATHHAMMER
\nCrimson Dawn<\/strong><\/span>
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\nHells Headbangers (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Let the stench of burning leather and hell fire suffocate your soul as Norway\u2019s Deathhammer provides another unhealthy soundtrack to any current catastrophe or impending Armageddon.<\/p>\n

As if the rivers of Hades had overflowed and swallowed Earth, Crimson Dawn<\/em> spills its contents to a soundtrack of tortured screams and spitting guitars. If you want blackened thrash, you got it. Deathhammer brings their A game, puking vitriol with such malice and contempt that one can literally smell the exhaust fumes of Satan\u2019s motorcycle speeding off down Hell\u2019s highway.<\/p>\n

\u2018Abyssic Thunder\u2019 is a smouldering speed metal onslaught rippling with the raucous vocals of Sergeant Salsten who obviously forgot to take a rabies shot after being nibbled by a Carpathian vampire. How a duo can make such a hiss n\u2019 rattle is beyond me; every instrument clashes like swinging chains of rust, clanking and clattering like Lucifer\u2019s scrapyard of shackled souls.<\/p>\n

For 40 minutes the audience can sit, stand or stage dive to a veritable feast of oxidized cacophony: \u2018Satan\u2019s Sword\u2019 with its New Wave Of British Heavy Metal streak of melody, the catchy mid-paced chugs of the title track, and my brace of favourites, the snappy punky tumult that is \u2018Stygian Lust\u2019 and the unholy spike of \u2018Legacy Of Pain\u2019.<\/p>\n

All of this sounds like an acidic feast leftover from old Venom, Sodom and Slayer<\/a>\u2019s Show No Mercy<\/em><\/a>, a literal banquet of eructed violence and force. I also highly recommend several spins of the final track, \u2018Into The Blackness Of Hell\u2019, which simmers with the same sinister intent of Slayer\u2019s classic cut \u2018Hell Awaits\u2019, except Deathhammer\u2019s track sounds more toxic and primordial, cast from the hottest pits.<\/p>\n

Norway has always coughed up deadly serious evil, and these merchants are six albums in to their blasphemous reign\u2026 and long may it continue.<\/p>\n

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

DEATHHAMMER Crimson Dawn Hells Headbangers (2025) Rating: 8\/10 Let the stench of burning leather and hell fire suffocate your soul as Norway\u2019s Deathhammer provides another unhealthy soundtrack to any current catastrophe or impending Armageddon. As if the rivers of Hades had overflowed and swallowed Earth, Crimson Dawn spills its contents to a soundtrack of tortured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-deathhammer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105392","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=105392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105393,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105392\/revisions\/105393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}