CD Review: Unleashed – As Yggdrasil Trembles
March 10th, 2010 Filed under: Reviews - Music by admin
CD Review – Unleashed
As Yggdrasil Trembles
Nuclear Blast Records
It’s been 19 years since the death metal band, Unleashed, “unleashed” their first album out of Sweden. Their newest release, As Yggdrasil Trembles, is number 10 in their discography and is again a seed that will infect teenagers’ minds with powerful and engaging metal musicianship equal to any of their earlier albums quality. But don’t suppose that As Yggdrasil Trembles is just a twin of a previous Unleashed album because although their style hasn’t evolved, it hasn’t deteriorated either.
As Yggdrasil Trembles is an album that’s very easy to listen to –tempos and riffs change in each songs tight structure defeating redundancy—making Unleashed’s sound somewhat of a gem because in their 20 year career they’ve maintained their “easy to listen to” style without dipping so much as one toe in the tempting pool of commercialism.
The many faces of Unleashed show their ugly heads in As Yggdrasil Trembles through various forms of metal. “Courage Today, Victory Tomorrow!” and “Yahweh and the Chosen Ones” are heavier and faster; as much thrash as they are death metal. There is a black metal approach in “Cannibalism Epidemic Continues” which thumps relentlessly between your ears with its dirtier sounding riffs and singer (also bassist) Johnny Hedlund changing his style of deep howls to slurred yells spitting lyrics of doomsdays. The thematic concepts in Unleashed’s lyrics essentially illustrate cultures and religious events of pre-Christianity eras (a prominent theme in most pagan metal bands) also proudly telling of, again, culture and great events from their Viking ancestors.
As Yggdrasil Trembles is another collection of epic myths and fables that satisfies the appetite for metal featuring the four Vikings of Unleashed who attack with six string axes.
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