Band: Weapon
Album title: From The Devil’s Tomb
Label: Agonia Records
Distribution: Sure Shot Worx
Release date: Autumn 2010
Review: CD

This is a new recording by the Canadian Black Metal band Weapon, not the melodic Death Metal formation from Canada, not one or another weapon from anywhere else in the world.

The quartet recorded this successor of Drakonian Paradigm (The Anja Offensive, 2009) at Sound Extractor Studio (recording, mix, mastering) with producer Stew Kirkwood at the beginning of spring 2010. From The Devil’s Tomb lasts for fifty four minutes and has the most sulphuric breath ever. This material is hellish in all its aspects: vocals, instruments, compositions, sound, atmosphere. Remarkable yet wonderful how this combination of energetic aggression and up-tempo madness at the one hand, and well-balanced melody with technical craftsmanship at the other, interfere. The focus lies on blasphemy and hate, yet with attention for structural and performanting excellence. Nice, nice, nice. The up-tempo pieces got rid of any form of cleaned-up finishing touch, making the whole sound somewhat under-produced – though it makes the whole more abyssal, more warlike, and less merciful or compromising too. Nice too, not?!

No more nice-talk; Weapon’s From The Devil’s Tomb is a highly recommendable release for all those who like it dirty, smelly, sardonic and hateful.

85/100

Ivan Tibos.