{"id":98062,"date":"2023-02-10T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=98062"},"modified":"2023-02-22T16:48:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:48:21","slug":"album-review-atomwinter-sakrileg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-atomwinter-sakrileg\/","title":{"rendered":"ATOMWINTER – Sakrileg (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATOMWINTER
Sakrileg<\/strong><\/span>
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\nTrollzorn (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sakrileg<\/em> is the fourth full-length release from German death merchants Atomwinter. The last album, Catacombs<\/em>, emerged in 2018, so it\u2019s been a while then but it\u2019s good to have these guys back.<\/p>\n

As expected, this opus churns and barks like a horrid mix of Bolt Thrower and numerous acts from the Netherlands death metal scene. Coated in stinking grey ash and as humorous as a billowing funeral pyre, Atomwinter provide little light in their quest for grey matter domination.<\/p>\n

Vocalist Florian Bauer, who joined the ranks in 2020, isn\u2019t too far removed from the attacks of previous growler O. Holzschneider. There is still that guttural surging you\u2019d expect from a contemporary death metal act and the grisly tones merely spearhead what is essentially a barrage of grotesque riffs, violent percussive tirades and at times a Swedish flavour. It is either fast, or occasionally slower and punishing.<\/p>\n

Atomwinter as a band rarely belch out surprises but they are more than content to exist as a bludgeoning entity riddled with sharp edges and annihilating flurries. Opener \u2018Ov Blood And Flesh\u2019 pretty much sets the tone; cold, grey, bleak death metal that only smirks when another searing pain is administered to the eardrums.<\/p>\n

Tracks such as \u2018Brutal Scriptures\u2019 offer some fantastic slower moments where the band really comes into its own and Bauer\u2019s blurts take on such a malevolent and sneering twist. \u2018The Dark Void\u2019 \u2013 which offers some excellent solo work \u2013 is another mighty construction that shifts towards a blackened death style of mocking, and the same could be said for the glinting dread of the title track.<\/p>\n

Sakrileg<\/em> is a colossal record that drips with arrogance; your ideal soundtrack then to war, war, and more war. And now to clean up this mess\u2026<\/p>\n

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

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