{"id":57392,"date":"2017-06-09T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=57392"},"modified":"2017-06-18T19:25:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T19:25:14","slug":"album-review-antichrist-sinful-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-antichrist-sinful-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"ANTICHRIST – Sinful Birth (2017) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANTICHRIST
Sinful Birth<\/strong><\/span>
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\nI Hate \/ Electric Assault (2017)<\/span>
Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know why it\u2019s been six years since their 2011 debut album Forbidden World<\/em>, but I\u2019m glad that Swedish thrashers Antichrist are back doing what they do best.<\/p>\n

The quintet \u2013 consisting of vocalist Anton \u201cSteken\u201d Sunesson, guitarists Gabbe Forslund and Filip Runesson, bassist Gobbe Henningsson and drummer Sven Nilsson \u2013 has a new album in the form of Sinful Birth<\/em>, which is a typically scathing thrash assault that comes with dollops of old school nods to a time when Bathory, Kreator, Sodom, Voivod, Destruction<\/a> et al were frightening our parents. With Sinful Birth<\/em>, it\u2019s as if Antichrist have extracted all the ingredients which made those bands so great and incorporated them into their own formidable train-wreck of an album.<\/p>\n

This is blistering, scorching, sneering stuff, as elements of that early clanking Bathory style cavort with a sharper Teutonic edge to result in a record that is as swift as an executioner\u2019s blade across the neck. From the off we have the blazing \u2018Savage Mutilations\u2019, with a no nonsense barrage of rasping vocal smirks amid a torrent of similarly wounding guitars which race with despicable aplomb.<\/p>\n

Forget polish and technological tweaks, Antichrist belong very much in the mid-80s with this derisive brand of hyper metal. Steken\u2019s vocal attack is very much of that vintage Snake (Voivod) yelp variety with a dry as a bone, squawking snap. But just when you think you\u2019re simply in for a screeching, non-stop blast, we get hit by the churning, mid-tempo opening of \u2018The Entity\u2019. The deep cutting guitar is an abrasive yet accessible fizz to the nodding drum and plopping bass as the track reveals itself as a steely, galloping traditional metal trudge, until suddenly becoming brisk with a zipping, zany hurtle following the route of the previous track.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s where Antichrist lie; a rocketing thrash act far removed from the gloss and generic patterns displayed by some of the more recent \u201cnew wave\u201d of artists. Instead, we have the pulverising visitations of the edgy metallic rattle of \u2018Under The Cross\u2019, the lengthier blitzkrieg of \u2018The Black Pharaoh\u2019 with its hyper blasts, and the grotesque, foaming whoosh of the title track.<\/p>\n

However, Antichrist is not a one-trick pony, and they come equipped with an even bigger weapon in the ten-minute instrumental entitled \u2018Chernobyl 1986\u2019, with its militant drum rolls and suspenseful, slow-building guitar buzz. The track builds into a truly raging manifestation, featuring what I assume is an original news broadcast on the catastrophic nuclear accident in Ukraine. The pace of \u2018Chernobyl 1986\u2019 doesn\u2019t necessarily quicken akin to the other tracks. Instead, it\u2019s an epic, measured affair displaying the incredible talent these guys have.<\/p>\n

I was impressed by the latest Condor (Unstoppable Power<\/em><\/a>) and Hellripper (Coagulating Darkness<\/em><\/a>) records a great deal, but Sinful Birth<\/em> takes the levels of thrash metal up a notch or two. In fact, it wouldn\u2019t surprise me if someone slapped a speeding ticket on this one.<\/p>\n

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

ANTICHRISTSinful Birth I Hate \/ Electric Assault (2017)Rating: 9\/10 I don\u2019t know why it\u2019s been six years since their 2011 debut album Forbidden World, but I\u2019m glad that Swedish thrashers Antichrist are back doing what they do best. The quintet \u2013 consisting of vocalist Anton \u201cSteken\u201d Sunesson, guitarists Gabbe Forslund and Filip Runesson, bassist Gobbe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3505],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antichrist-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57392","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=57392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57396,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57392\/revisions\/57396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}