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The tenth studio album by the Belgian black metal masters Enthroned released on 15/04/2014 and was entitled * * Sovereigns. It was recorded in the occupation Nornagest (vocals, guitar), Phorgath (bass) Neerath (guitar), ZarZax (guitar) and Menthor (drums). And to put it straight to the point: the album offers nothing new. There are no experiments, nor any attempts to devise new Kramp liable innovation, but there are plenty of smashing heavily produced old-school black metal.

Again for the production recorded bassist Phorgath responsible of. In recent years, as the longtime guitarist Neerath, together with the band Boss Norngest something like the leading triumvirate within the band The compositions are credited as teamwork, only the lyrics are the complete sovereignty of the chiefs and singer.

Black Metal is in its variety, I think, a badly limited genre. All the more amazing it is with instinctive certainty always burn new variants that many band. * Sovereigns * is such an album. The album ignites immediately and the band flaring a bulletin board first rank from. What first strikes are elegantly interwoven with each other and flowing riffs, the clear bass lines and the significant, intelligent interaction. Rounded off with a relentless drums that dominates mercilessly the balancing act between blast parts, double bass orgies and rolling nuances.

Although this is, as mentioned above, nothing really new, nor less than I expect from a new Enthroned disc, but despite all the gloom, aggressiveness and momentous atmosphere, the interaction of the musicians sounds pleasantly relaxed and encourages also the appropriate anthems to light without which the most perfect interplay could not function. From the third listening test the hammer number * Sin Qua Non *, * Of Shrines and Sovereigns became clear *, * Baal al toll * and * The Edge of Agony * out in merciless intension. And the entire range of the album from majestic riffs, anthemic epic songs or just dirty little crash numbers was done to surpass its two predecessors in complexity.

With some distance in time I am today as far as saying that * is the * Sovereigns the strongest album of the post-Lord-Sabathan era, but this is in view of the extremely strong three previous discs to be considered purely subjective and a damn in this subjective view represents strong performance. * Sovereigns * is a black metal fireworks that the black breath through and through breathing ...