With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell
Hollenthon
- Style
- Death/Dark Symphony
- Label
- Napalm Records
- Year
- 2001
- Reviewed by
- Danny
/ 100
Killing songs: <i>The whole record is a killer, an alien opera !!! </i>
After their excellent debut album (Domus Mundi), Hollenthon
is back with their new work, With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell.
Hollenthon has impressed all Europe with their first CD (excellent
song-writing) and I was impatient to see (to hear) if the first feat
was a coincidence or if this is the birth of a cult band.
I don't know if I will find the right words to describe you this masterpiece
.... because masterpiece is a too ridiculous word to described this
magnificent death/dark opera. The orchestration is perfect and the song-writing
must be considered as one of the best performance EVER done by a metal
band.
Imagine wonderful chorus in the back (like an opera), imagine an epico-classico
atmosphere, imagine melodic guitars riffs flowing from everywhere and
imagine a black/dark voice hunting you from the first second 'till the
end of this magical opera creating a new orchestral dimension. Well,
stop to imagine and run to the nearest CD vendor, because Hollenthon
MADE it. The production is a perfection, helping the band to create
this atmosphere.
I thought that Rage XIII was perfect, but here this is bigger, better,
enormous. Just listen to track 4, To Kingdom Come, and you will
understand what I mean. This CD must be in your metal collection. There
was Therion, Rage and Blind Guardian (epic songs) and now there is Hollenthon.
Metal is marvelous, but here we are talking of the sword of the God
...