Band: Legion Of The Damned
Title: Descent Into Chaos
Label: Massacre Records
Distribution: Suburban - Bertus
Release date: January 7th 2011
Review: CD

The Netherlands do house several excellent Thrash bands in the old school vein. One of my favourite ones was (and still is) Legion Of The Damned. As a matter of fact, the band was formed in 1992 as Occult, bringing an unpolished form of blackened Thrash Metal. After a handful of demos, five full lengths and a DVD, the moniker got changed into the current one, Legion Of The Damned – we’re talking 2005. Each year, the band delivered a new epos, the new one over powering the former one, and after a compilation and a live album too, the members recorded the fifth studio album, released through their long-time label Massacre.
Forty four minutes it takes to be part of the new soundtrack. It is spikes-in-the-skull-material, it is not (that) different from the past. Rhythmic, warlike, pushing, deathrashing, Descent Into Chaos indeed is another killer-release, another superb Thrash-epos. Energetic and merciless, death- and black-edged retro-glory, raw cataclysmic Thrash-terror, Descent Into Glory will fulfil quasi-unrealistic expectations.
But… I cannot but add the following. This album is NOT necessarily stronger than any former recording. All right, some might think it is – it isn’t but a personal, and therefore subjective, opinion. But I do miss those details that made Cult Of The Dead, Feel The Blade or Sons Of The Jackal wonderfully outstanding. I’ve heard most of this stuff before, I’m afraid, and sometimes I did hear a better version. Don’t get me wrong: Legion Of The Damned still rock! Yet it isn’t about solid rocks anymore, at least not whole the time. And this album is the less varying one in years too, I’m afraid???...

80/100

Ivan Tibos.