Ferosity - Overthrown Divinity

Rating: 6.0

Country: Poland

Genre: Death Metal

Release Date: 2007

Track list:
1. Pandemonic Revelation
2. Don't Protect The Weakness
3. Let's Bow Abaddon... Before The Battle Against God
4. B-XVI
5. Butchery And Torment
6. Death Is Fucking War
7. Abaddon
8. Hetzer Attack
9. Paranormal Army
10. Messiah Arrival
11. Destruction
12. When The Abyss Winds Return (Angel Corpse cover)
13. Heaven In Black Flames

Band Website: Hetzer

Hetzer - The Rise of Abaddon

Vincent - Guitar
Executioner - Drums
Swir - Vocals/Bass
Vandal - Guitar

If nothing else, this one can certainly come in handy as a means of motivation anytime you or one of your friends experiences severe stagefright while trying to pee at a public urinal inside of a bustling men's room. Otherwise, you could probably do better saving your hard earned coins up for the next Nifelheim or Antaeus release. Basically, Poland's Hetzer plays a very straight forward blast attack style of Death Metal that heavily extrapolates Angelcorpse so much that they even attempted to cover one of Pete Helmcamp and co's numbers entitled, "When the Abyss Winds Return."

Granted the material on display here is performed with utmost conviction but tends to get a bit boring pretty quickly after hearing that constant poltergeist inhabiting a typewriter, 'dat-a-dat-a-dat' blasting tempo over and over in every song. Though I must admit the blazin' and scorchin' guitar soloing is pretty impressive and in certain spots sounds like divebombing squadron fighters spelling the doom of hundreds while in others, the grotesque sounds of pigs being mercilessly slaughtered by the dozen. In fact, upon repeated listens the trebly, quavering solos and riffing styles tends to conjure up the likes of Krisiun or even early Slayer. Of course, it's blatantly clear that the band's intention is just to simply bludgeon and hack without batting an eyelash for this entire 13 song opus just frantically zooms by in a blur in under 35 minutes. In fact, I'd even go so far as to say that this is probably to Death Metal what Slayer's monumental '86 achievement Reign in Blood was to thrash or what Napalm Death's groundbreaking '86 debut, Scum was to the punk genre in that they all overwhelm the listeners' ears with a seizure inducing, cacophonous wall of sound. Indeed I'd gladly place Hetzer on that same revered pedestal if this approach to extreme music hasn't already been done to death thousands of times already. Otherwise, this is definitely an air guitar geek's ultimate wet dream.

Overall, this being the third official disc on the Redrum666/Fallen Angel roster that I've had to review thus far (see my previous scribbling on Nebiros [review] and Ferosity [review]) I can now honestly say with all conviction that the proprietor behind said operation isn't looking to break any new ground here at all. In an age where identity is crucial, there's just no way any of the major zines or critics are going to pay any attention anytime soon and if I was the guy operating this label, I'd seriously start to re-examine my initial goals and intentions with undertaking such a task at hand.

August 25th, 2008