{"id":93532,"date":"2022-05-06T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T23:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=93532"},"modified":"2022-05-25T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T15:37:08","slug":"album-review-molten-chains-orisons-of-vengeance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-molten-chains-orisons-of-vengeance\/","title":{"rendered":"MOLTEN CHAINS – Orisons Of Vengeance (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOLTEN CHAINS
Orisons Of Vengeance<\/strong><\/span>
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\nAlone \/ Night Rhythms Recordings (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This creepy combo from Vienna in Austria formed back in 2017 and yet they\u2019ve somehow, and criminally too, gone under the radar. However, I\u2019m hoping that this new album, the band\u2019s third, puts them on the map of morbidity, because this really is some atmospherically macabre metal.<\/p>\n

Molten Chains is a very intriguing outfit with a sound that comes cloaked in darkness. The line-up consists of Deathromancer (vocals, guitar and bass), Graf Gyula (guitar) and Michi von Rosenkranz (drums).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve played this opus several times and still can\u2019t fully pigeon-hole their sound. Let\u2019s just say that if you went to see a band like Mercyful Fate, or even Ghost, then Molten Chains is the sort of band you\u2019d want supporting.<\/p>\n

The band plays a black \/ thrash style of metal streaked with a doominess and shock rock brooding. However, there\u2019s a peculiar avant-garde feel to the whole album as Molten Chains explores the darkest crypts of horror in order to dredge up their thorny, sinister sound.<\/p>\n

Listen to a track such as \u2018Bedevilled By Sorrow\u2019 and you\u2019ll see what I mean about this darkly majestic and creepily cryptic cacophony as the vocals shift from evil commands to satanic sneers. And all the while the backdrop of red velvet curtains occasionally throws out mercurial passages of mystery alongside stark, thrashing spikiness.<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018Hand Of God\u2019 flits towards a black metal-cum-Mercyful Fate orgy of darkness, while \u2018Black Mantle\u2019 injects heaps of crunching dissonance, particularly in the grey, icy guitar tone. And that\u2019s where the black thrash lacing is more evident, although it\u2019s never truly remote or abrasive, but the dashes of speed and angular segments suggest a coldness.<\/p>\n

This is also evident with the clanking hiss of \u2018Communion\u2019, but when the vocals shift to a croon-like bellow it\u2019s only natural to harken back to some of doom metal\u2019s creaking gods, because Deathromancer really does become the black magician here as his smooth yet disconcerting tones soar like ghostly wisps from the flames.<\/p>\n

\u2018Crimson Equinox\u2019 begins with creepy, although, dare I say it, cheesy narration, dragging me back to the halcyon days of UK band Deliverance. Y\u2019know, the sort of esoteric gloominess that ran through the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal scene. But all the while there are those hammering drums, the speeding guitars and a bass that clangs like a death bell.<\/p>\n

Molten Chains have clearly tapped into something here and that\u2019s why I\u2019m surprised at their lack of popularity, because as \u2018Martyrdom\u2019 rounds this black mass of I can only admire the speed metal rushes, the blackened thrash outbursts and all-round mystifying trickiness.<\/p>\n

Orisons Of Vengeance<\/em> is a concise yet rewarding adventure through foreboding corridors lined with laced veils that flutter like tormented spirits. It\u2019s an album that stirs the imagination and prompts me to sleep with one eye on the crack in the door.<\/p>\n

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

MOLTEN CHAINSOrisons Of Vengeance Alone \/ Night Rhythms Recordings (2022)Rating: 8\/10 This creepy combo from Vienna in Austria formed back in 2017 and yet they\u2019ve somehow, and criminally too, gone under the radar. However, I\u2019m hoping that this new album, the band\u2019s third, puts them on the map of morbidity, because this really is some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4803],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-molten-chains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93532","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=93532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93533,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93532\/revisions\/93533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}