{"id":13340,"date":"2013-05-25T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=13340"},"modified":"2013-07-26T10:08:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T10:08:27","slug":"album-review-el-camino-gold-of-the-great-deceiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-el-camino-gold-of-the-great-deceiver\/","title":{"rendered":"EL CAM\u00cdNO – Gold Of The Great Deceiver (2013) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

EL CAM\u00cdNO
Gold Of The Great Deceiver<\/strong><\/span>
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\nNight Tripper (2013)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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When the ominous tones of el Cam\u00edno\u2019s title track heave themselves out of the speakers I\u2019m finding myself reaching for the black candles, so soaked am I by the dark, ancient atmospherics of this record. The opening black riffs literally smoulder with that oh so recognisable Black Sabbath<\/a> hint of terror, and yet el Cam\u00edno is most certainly from a different genre than the British doom lords. In fact, I don\u2019t really know how to categorise such a rust bucket of a record \u2013 an opus that literally smokes throughout with spitting attitude and nihilistic musicianship.<\/p>\n

el Cam\u00edno hail from Sweden, but their sound is completely bereft of the usual buzz-saw riffing you\u2019d expect and, if anything, this venomous five-piece have more in common with German thrash and gritty, armoured heavy metal than Entombed and the likes.<\/p>\n

Gold Of The Great Deceiver<\/em> is el Cam\u00edno\u2019s second opus, following on from 2011\u2019s The Satanik Majiik<\/em>, and it\u2019s one of those raw, sneering doom-laden records you feel should have been made decades ago. el Cam\u00edno are fronted by vocalist Daniel, who at times clearly takes his influence from Venom frontman Cronos. He\u2019s joined by the gravelled guitar team of Nicke and Jimmy Sj\u00f6qvist, who in tandem create a fiery, yet very much blackened style of doom \u2019n\u2019 roll that aches of British steel and German steam. On drums we have the unhealthy rattles of Mattias Johansson and alongside him the bass talents of Timmy Persson.<\/p>\n

While never a fast outfit, el Cam\u00edno trawl the dregs of the thrash tank in search of oily remnants to add to their already foetid cauldron. Daniel\u2019s vocals are infectiously raspy, murky and mocking, especially on the album\u2019s high point, the seething, boiling \u2018Sm\u00e5land\u2019, which is an oozing monster of a tune featuring the classic lines, \u201cWe bring you all, to our darkness, to our home… home to warlocks, home to witches, and a werewolf\u201d<\/em> over a menacing guitar plod. It\u2019s the sort of track Venom would come up with if they\u2019d spent too many hours around a bong.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, we\u2019re treated to the sinister yet trad-rock sounding \u2018This Land Of Mine\u2019 with its crust punk values, while \u2018Torn\u2019 creeps into the room on a Tony Iommi-inspired (Black Sabbath) megalith of a riff. It\u2019s hard to believe these guys formed in 2003, and yet have hardly lifted a muscle to propel themselves out of the sweaty pubs. \u2018Torn\u2019 is very much Mot\u00f6rhead meets Black Sabbath, Daniel\u2019s vocal of that corroded Lemmy variety, until he pukes out the words of \u201cSatan take me\u201d<\/em> on the stoner groove of \u2018The One Of Evil\u2019; so ghoulish in its nightmarish trudge.<\/p>\n

el Cam\u00edno make the likes of Down seem pompous such is their malicious intent. Such is the volatile vocal delivery of Daniel that he wouldn\u2019t seem out of place on one of those old Destruction<\/a> or Sodom records from the 1980s. But when you consider the hype surrounding Ghost at the moment, I\u2019m of the opinion that el Cam\u00edno are far seedier when it comes to begrimed rock. Pigeon-hole this if you dare, but within minutes you\u2019ll find yourself losing grip on this metallic beast and forever attempting to remove the dirt from underneath your nails.<\/p>\n

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

EL CAM\u00cdNOGold Of The Great Deceiver Night Tripper (2013)Rating: 8\/10 When the ominous tones of el Cam\u00edno\u2019s title track heave themselves out of the speakers I\u2019m finding myself reaching for the black candles, so soaked am I by the dark, ancient atmospherics of this record. The opening black riffs literally smoulder with that oh so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-el-camino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340","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=13340"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13353,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340\/revisions\/13353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}