{"id":56724,"date":"2017-04-14T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=56724"},"modified":"2017-06-04T17:27:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:27:43","slug":"album-review-infernal-majesty-no-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-infernal-majesty-no-god\/","title":{"rendered":"INFERN\u00c4L M\u00c4JESTY – No God (2017) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

INFERN\u00c4L M\u00c4JESTY
No God<\/strong><\/span>
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\nHigh Roller (2017)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to believe that this Canadian band has been around for over 30 years. No God<\/em> is the follow up to their 2004 record One Who Points To Death<\/em>, picking up where the band left off 13 years prior. The album channels a good deal of classic thrash reminiscent of Kreator, Sodom and classic Sepultura, to mention a few. Now, don\u2019t get me wrong, Infern\u00e4l M\u00e4jesty are their own beast, but the influences mentioned have a way of creeping into a lot of this record. Is that a detraction from the music Infern\u00e4l M\u00e4jesty are making? Not at all.<\/p>\n

\u2018Enter the World Of The Undead\u2019 opens the album with just a hint of Sepultura\u2019s Schizophrenia<\/em> era, punching through. Infern\u00e4l M\u00e4jesty pull off the perfect rager to open this disc with. No God<\/em> is an exercise in well-crafted thrash. The band has figured out when to add melody, when to throw in blast beats, all to serve the greater good of the music. Songs like \u2018Another Day In Hell\u2019 and \u2018Signs Of Evil\u2019 are perfect examples of this, demonstrating how much this band has perfected their dark craft over the last three decades, knowing how to bring a song together and how to embrace their identity without resorting to \u201ccut and paste\u201d, so to speak. Infern\u00e4l M\u00e4jesty doesn\u2019t imitate, they demonstrate.<\/p>\n

Is the band charting new territory with No God<\/em>? Honestly no, but they don\u2019t have to, they do what they do best \u2013 they explore said territory with a critical eye. Infern\u00e4l M\u00e4jesty isn\u2019t breaking new ground with their fourth studio album, they\u2019re just doing it as good or better than a lot of bands in this genre. Remember, they were right there in the mix when thrash was in its heyday 30 plus years ago. That\u2019s why it\u2019s okay to mention Sepultura, Sodom or Kreator in the same sentence as Infern\u00e4l M\u00e4jesty. They earned that right to be called peers alongside these metal giants. Thrash is a genre that\u2019s been re-discovered and re-imagined over the course of the last decade by a slew of new, young bands trying to emulate their heroes, but in the case of Infern\u00e4l M\u00e4jesty, they are<\/em> who these bands are looking up to. <\/p>\n

No God<\/em> is an uncompromising metal record that you\u2019d expect veterans such as Infern\u00e4l M\u00e4jesty to make. The standout tunes \u2018Nation Of Assassins\u2019 and closer \u2018Extinction Level Event\u2019 showcase these Canadian thrashers as they continue their comeback in the metal realm. No God<\/em> is a more focused and polished effort than 2004\u2019s One Who Points To Death<\/em>, and it\u2019s good to see Infern\u00e4l M\u00e4jesty growing and refining their sound. This record deserves your attention.<\/p>\n

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

INFERN\u00c4L M\u00c4JESTYNo God High Roller (2017)Rating: 7\/10 It\u2019s hard to believe that this Canadian band has been around for over 30 years. No God is the follow up to their 2004 record One Who Points To Death, picking up where the band left off 13 years prior. The album channels a good deal of classic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infernal-majesty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56724","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=56724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56726,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56724\/revisions\/56726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}