Malevolent Creation "Warkult" (Nuclear Blast)
By Tim Den
Wednesday. Oct 13, 11:10 AM
Coin toss... tails.

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Malevolent Creation always follow up a good album with a bad one. Warklut is the tails to The Will to Kill’s heads, as it numbingly goes through the motions song after song about war, being in war, how war kills people, etc. The Will to Kill’s stunning production is gone, replaced by a Envenomed (itself the negative to The Fine Art of Murder’s positive) level of dead drums and garage guitars. All the riffs blend together, with predictable tempos and monotonous grinds putting the listener to sleep by song three. Not until “Ravaged by Conflict” toward the end do the band really play like they mean it, menacingly choking palm mutes and skittering rhythms like they were Cryptopsy.

I really should know better by now, but The Will to Kill was so frighteningly intimidating that I thought maybe the band could succeed it with style. Again, I was proven wrong.
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Brian Rutherford posted the following Constructive Criticism: I have to say i disagree with this guy Tims review about "Warkult". I have been a fan of Malevolent since their ten commandments album and i am an avid drummer and play guitar a bit. But warkult was a total badass album and one of their best. I know its about war but it makes for great songwriting. the album cover was cool to me!!im into war stuff!!The album itself is full of killer guitars that are more thrash and slightly slower than blinding speed metal they are known for on The Will to kill.it makes the album so good with that type of playing . kind of reminds me of Dew Scented who are great!! Still the album rocks hard and is pounding. Most everyone i talk to loved it when it came out!!!Guess if you dont play music you just cannot get it. Warkult is awesome and downright one of the best albums in a long while, I still listen to it two years later and i cannot wait to hear Doomsday-X. Brett and some of the original members are working on it. i am so glad they keep this band going after all the changes. Thats kind of how it goes with bands these days. Its just great they love the music enough to keep releasing albums i always love! they are one of the true inventors of this music.
alex posted the following Constructive Criticism: now please but that cd on, again, for me, and again, for the sake of metal...will 2 kill was awesome, but...the song! ok, the album itself is also good, but warkult is extreme.do you play some sort of instrument? to be more specific, guitar or drums? if so, just lower your ear to the loudspeaker, you'll be amazed, it`s huge what theyre playing there. and if u dont play any instrument, believe me....trust me! theyre gods...
Joe Losch posted the following Constructive Criticism: I totally disagree...I do like this cd a lot. I think that it's by far one of the 3 best...mostly because I think some of the middle albums were haphazard...it is slightly better than The Will to Kill, which I did like...but nothing touches Envenomed. I wish most death metal bands could make music of this calibur.
joe posted the following Constructive Criticism: warkult isnt the best malevolent creation album but it still far surpasses most of the material of their contemporys. The main problem for me is athough the lyrics are vaguely mature, they sound a bit safe, kyle has the voice but lyricaly is no bret hoffman .I think all the songs are quite strong, but are played in the wrong order to keep you interested, so i can kind of sympathise with you opinions to some degree. But that reveiw was plain harsh.
Eric posted the following Constructive Criticism: Yeah, one good for one bad seems to sum it up perfectly. Will to Kill and Murder were both killer. But damn was Envenomed utter garbage. It was almost funny. Almost.



 
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