Here is my review for This album Crimson Thorn's Dissection....I would not like to take credit for it, I like to remain unknown.

This is the heaviest most bone jaring album I've heard in a long time. After four long years This band has finaly come out with a second album. If you loved "Unearthed" you won't be disapointed as this album is even more crushing and man handling then that one...The first thing you'll notice is the harsher more darker sound of this album compared to "Unearthed", but not dark in a theatrical black/goth sort of way...This is straight forward death/grind metal...I can't realy compare Crimson Thorn's sound to anyone else I've heard. Partly from lack of exposer on this reviewers acount the also because the band has refined their own breed of very heavy death and grind music. The album is very tight and the insturments fuse themselves together into a fericous metallic attack but they maintain a very chaotic dissonent sound non the less.

The band could even be described as "technical" in some aspects. The first song opens with a simple yet errie intro of a building harmonic cymbal type sound then slams you in the face with a ultra thick, brick wall of a chunky riff which leads right into a warbly kind of semi lead guitar attack before utterly exploding into one of the most vicous blast beats ever recorded. From hearing this extremely heavy first song you know you're in for a treat with this record...

One of the things that makes this album so heavy is the guitar sound, imagine a guitar sound as thick as Crowbars and as punishingly distorted as Hordes. The drum production has a suffocatingly loud sound with some of the harshest snare hits I've ever heard. The best part of all are the incrediable vocal talents of Luke Renno...This guy has THE best death metal vocal style I have ever heard and they are even HEAVIER then compared to those you heard on "Unearthed" Track 10 is a surprising black metal style song with alternating shreiked and growled vocals.

Some high lights are the songs "Beaten Beyond" "Eternal Life" "All Authority" "2nd Timothy 3". track 8 "My Salvation" is a great little forty second edition with a very catchy and very heavy chunky riff that just puts the icing in the cake. The lyrics go straight for the jugular at every turn, from "Beaten Beyond": 'Beaten Beyond Recognition a mutilation extreme, sacrificial lamb prepared for slaughter, God in the form of a man holy and surpreme.' And from "2nd Timothy 3": 'I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I will suffer persecution rather then deny!' And in "Dissection": 'By altering the scriptures, divine truths are nulified. To the point of tears Paul warned us, those worst fears are now relized.' There is even a hiddin track of industrial rap grindcore(!) and a crazy cover of a stryper song. I just cant drool over this record enough, It rules! P.S. In the song "All Authority" there is some strange language spoken that sound supiciously like Klingon! Are Crimson Thorn closet Star Trek fans!?

SCORE : 10/10

*Reviewed by Calfat*

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