Desecration Of The Holy Kingdom  (Full Moon Productions)

 Woooooww!! What was that?! It seems that Black Witchery is actually one of the most brutal Black/Death Metal bands in today’s scene, their unholy music follows the path of the Canadian masters of Black Metal Blasphemy; in fact I think BW is more War Metal than Black Metal. Totally chaotic noisy and fast drumming, hateful vocals, usual Black voices in fact, in other context I’ll said there’s nothing special here, but in the whole context of “Desecration Of The Holy Kingdom” the voice fits perfectly with the storming guitars and the hellish atmosphere, there are some keyboards adding some estrange aura in some places. There’s a couple of covers in this destructive album; “Deathrash” of the Brazilian gods Sarcofago and “Ritual” of their mentors Blasphemy. The whole album is an explosive and hateful mass of war and destruction; the main problem is that into this nightmarish storm of heaviness, some good ideas are lost, buried by a wall of noise, I’m not talking about the production, it’s pretty good for the style, I’m talking about music; this album may turns a little bored after a couple of songs, is like they used only one base for the entire album. But despite of this (big) detail it isn’t a bad album at all, but isn’t a masterpiece either. (AP)