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Pantokrator - Aurum, Whirlwind Records
| It's always pleasant to hear a band making progession. Aurum is the
second full-length studio-album from the Swedish death metal band Pantokrator. On Aurum
they've abandoned the Swedish lyrics they wrote for Blod. Now all songs are in English and
the growls are quite easy to understand. This can't be said of the printing in the
booklet. They are almost impossible to read as the texts have almost the same color as the
backgrounds. But the music makes up for the lack of care for the booklet (the cover is
also one of the dullest I've ever seen). What is immediately clear after I popped this
disc into the player, is that the band has progressed. The songs are more mature and the
sound quality is very good. Most of the songs are uptempo. A few are slower, more
depressive and doomy (like the excellent Thy Feeble Flame). Pantokrator is not a band with
lots of guitar solos, but the solo in Where Lilith Found Her Peace is really tasty. What I
miss on this album, is the violin playing that Blod had. Nonetheless, Pantokrator has
moved forward and the result is a very nice piece of melodic death metal. |
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