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/:: Artist :: Sorcerer ::\
:: Album :: Reign of the Reaper ::
:: Year :: 2023 ::
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:: . Genre :: Metal Source :: CDDA . ::
:: Label :: Nuclear Music R.date :: 2023.12.05 ::
_::__ Cat.nr. :: NM054 S.date :: 2023.10.27 __::_
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..: Bitrate :: avg. 263kbps :..
. Quality :: 44.1kHz/Joint Stereo .
. Size :: 89.17 MB .
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http://sorcererdoom.bandcamp.com
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:: 01. Morning Star 06:34 ::
:: 02. Reign of the Reaper 06:30 ::
:: 03. Thy Kingdom Will Come 05:02 ::
:: 04. Eternal Sleep 06:35 ::
:: 05. Curse of Medusa 05:04 ::
:: 06. Unveiling Blasphemy 06:25 ::
:: 07. The Underworld 04:33 ::
:: 08. Break of Dawn 06:28 ::
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:: I guess what Count Raven is for the Ozzy era in Black ::
:: Sabbath, the Sorcerer is for the so much underrated Tony ::
:: Martin era there (except the fucked up "Forbidden" album). ::
:: Vocalist Anders Engberg almost sounds like him on Reign Of ::
:: The Reaper. So there is no discussion about the greatness of ::
:: the vocal performance here, this is absolutely overwhelming. ::
:: And so is the opener 'Morning Star'. This is a magnificent ::
:: epic doom song with some airy guitar riffs, heavy drums and ::
:: a great chorus. This is what I was longing for on the ::
:: previous album Lamenting Of The Innocent but I never got it ::
:: there. ::
:: ::
:: The band is much more focused on their eight new songs than ::
:: before and didn't threw in as many unnecessary elements into ::
:: these overlong, sometimes a little bit exhausting and going ::
:: overboard songs. This is really good because Sorcerer sounds ::
:: fresher and much more inspired than within the last few ::
:: years. Even a quite typical song like the title track ::
:: becomes something special because of the very surprising ::
:: break with the suddenly beginning piano and the very casual ::
:: guitar solo afterwards. This is really fun to listen to. ::
:: Sometimes it is even hard to describe their style as doom ::
:: anymore (just like I refuse to classify Headless Cross or ::
:: The Eternal Idol as doom, too). Songs like 'Thy Kingdom ::
:: Will Come' and 'The Underworld' are galloping heavy metal ::
:: stompers with a lot of epic elements just like old Manowar ::
:: used on Into Glory Ride or Hail To England (and not such ::
:: crappy shit like Laut Und Hart, Strak Und Schnell that ::
:: was just the opposite of that, besides). With 'Unveiling ::
:: Blasphemy' the listener gets some drama. The song structure ::
:: is almost like a Greek drama. The tension rises with some ::
:: really dramatically tuned guitars and very emphasizing ::
:: vocals until its peak with a great whirring guitar solo. ::
:: 'Curse Of Medusa' is a song that falls out of the frame ::
:: most. Here the Swedes have built-in some more oriental ::
:: sounds which are very repetitive. Apart from that the song ::
:: is maybe their fastest track on the album with again some ::
:: fantastic vocal lines, amazing breaks and again with pretty ::
:: much drama in it. ::
:: ::
:: Closing the album with 'Break Of Dawn' the band has saved ::
:: their only real doom song for this. Starting with a very ::
:: dark and gloomy atmosphere caused by the dark orchestration, ::
:: Anders' vocals are a really interesting counterpart to this ::
:: because they sound pretty bright and hopeful. This is almost ::
:: like the battle between good and evil set to music. This is ::
:: really the highlight of the album not only because of this ::
:: performance but also because of some really almost ::
:: heartbreaking melodies in it. To come back to Black Sabbath ::
:: with Tony Martin if they had a song like this on the ::
:: aforementioned albums, this would have been a killer and ::
:: probably still a classic. ::
:: ::
:: Well, you cannot do anything wrong with the new Sorcerer ::
:: album if you were a little bit disappointed with the 2020 ::
:: output, this will give you peace of mind again, if you liked ::
:: the previous one, you will also like this. So just start the ::
:: Reign Of The Reaper in your home and listen to your own ::
:: acoustic drama in your stereo. ::
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