{"id":20309,"date":"2014-05-02T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=20309"},"modified":"2014-07-16T12:11:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T12:11:31","slug":"album-review-septekh-plan-for-world-domination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-septekh-plan-for-world-domination\/","title":{"rendered":"SEPTEKH – Plan For World Domination (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEPTEKH
Plan For World Domination<\/strong><\/span>
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\nAbyss (2014)<\/span>
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After three EPs, Sweden\u2019s Septekh have finally released their debut 13-track full-length album, and it\u2019s one that showcases their talent for blackened thrash metal.<\/p>\n

This quartet are an interesting bunch, however, because they are not afraid to mix their extreme metal spurts with sprigs of traditional metal, which becomes evident straight away on album opener \u2018Into The Void Of My Mind\u2019. For all of its fire and fury, \u2018Into The Void Of My Mind\u2019 boasts an upbeat, traditional metal backbone which worms its way around the thrashy belligerence and shows itself just over halfway through. <\/p>\n

Vocally, Nils Meseke has a straightforward wretched sneer, which is complemented by the aggressive guitar work that hints at good, solid European thrash metal with deathlier shades. Intriguingly the topics are removed from the usual beer, blood and movies slant; titles such as \u2018Goin\u2019 Down In Style\u2019, \u2018Don Asshole\u2019, \u2018Superheated Liquid Iron Core\u2019 and \u2018Fuck Dollar\u2019 suggest a band with an eye for the original, and some of the melodies on this record are interesting to say the least. <\/p>\n

\u2018Goin\u2019 Down In Style\u2019 is an incredibly catchy number far removed from the black thrash lean I was expecting. In fact, it\u2019s a good rock \u2019n\u2019 roll song with a backbeat of doomy aplomb; at one point I\u2019m even reminded of Trouble\u2019s \u2018At The End Of My Daze\u2019, yet with snarled vocals and less gloom. <\/p>\n

\u2018Saving Graces\u2019 is another traditional metal rocker mixed with a thrashier, and dare I say it, punkier edge. In fact, it\u2019s the scratchy vocal which stops this from completely being merely an unusual heavy metal album. David Wikstr\u00f6m is a talented guitar player and his riffs are served with colour, and yet remain razor sharp to work in tandem with Staffan Persson\u2019s energetic percussion. \u2018Neanderthal\u2019 is a super-charged case of rattle \u2019n\u2019 roll \u2013 it hints at Entombed at their most accessible \u2013 while \u2018Don Asshole\u2019 is a mid-tempo chug which bleeds into the driving \u2018Left Handed Man\u2019, which even has a touch of Darkthrone<\/a> about it. <\/p>\n

Plan For World Domination<\/em> is really an album that deserves your time, because once it gets its rusty hooks in it becomes an essential purchase. It\u2019s great to hear a band combine several styles, and yet remain completely fresh. If you like real grimy, doom-laden metal then pluck for \u2018Black Shores\u2019 with its oily lumber, but if you want something more bitter and twisted then choose the spitting \u2018Fuck Dollar\u2019. But, if it\u2019s uptempo, galloping metal you\u2019re after, then you can\u2019t go wrong with the speedy \u2018Eyes Of The Grave\u2019.<\/p>\n

Well, I never expected to hear a Swedish band come up with something different than the usual Entombed-style buzzsaw death \u2019n\u2019 roll, but Plan For World Domination<\/em> has such a cool, upbeat edge about it and a sound that makes it nigh on impossible to pigeonhole the band. This is snarling metal with pace and melody in abundance, and with such a vicious scowl to lead the charge, world domination could well be just around the corner.<\/p>\n

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

SEPTEKHPlan For World Domination Abyss (2014)Rating: 8\/10 After three EPs, Sweden\u2019s Septekh have finally released their debut 13-track full-length album, and it\u2019s one that showcases their talent for blackened thrash metal. This quartet are an interesting bunch, however, because they are not afraid to mix their extreme metal spurts with sprigs of traditional metal, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-septekh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20309","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=20309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20313,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20309\/revisions\/20313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}