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"Slaves of the Shadow Realm" is a seventh studio album by Dutch extreme metal band Legion of the Damned. It was released on January 4th, 2019 through Napalm Records.
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Blood, sweat and steel mark the effort as Swinkels’ snarling screams and Twan van Geel’s amazing guitar-work serve as the main weapons here, all while maintaining the band’s Slayer-esque atmosphere allied with the aggressiveness and bombastic elements that acts like The Crown and Skeletonwitch are also known for. The album lives and breathes evil aura and macabre moments, from the awesome cover art by Hungarian mastermind Gyula Havancsák (Destruction, Grave Digger and others) to the haunting song titles and lyrics. Tracks like “Nocturnal Commando” and “Charnel Confession” provide a sense of pure hatred and calamity, especially when Fleuren is at his peak blasting through the drums like a war chanter.
Legion of the Damned is fierce as hell. Following the same vein as classics like ‘Malevolent Rapture’ (2006) and ‘Sons of the Jackal’ (2007), the Dutch quartet delivers in ‘Slaves of the Shadow Realm’ yet another brutal attack of crushing death/thrash with a flavor of their own. Fast, heavy, powerful and true, the band reached long ago an organic form in terms of execution and musicianship that is enviable, which is easily seen in the album. If this is any indication of what 2019 will be for death, thrash and metal in general, rest assured that the future will be brilliant. Highly recommended.
Reviewed by Bruno Medeiros for metalwani.com.
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