Search - Angelcorpse :: Of Lucifer & Lightning

Crushing Blackened Death Metal

Ryan | Salisbury, NC. USA | 10/11/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I stumbled upon this band by accident, and I am glad I did! Angel Corpse's "Of Lucifer & Lightning" is a masterful, albeit expected, piece of Blackened Death that any fan of either genre should enjoy.



The vocals are the gurgly, Black Metal type throughout the album. They fit in perfectly with the music. Powerful, consistent, and blasphemous sum them up fairly well. Even if you are not a fan of Black Metal's vocal style (I myself am a Death-Head, so I tend to enjoy the bass-laden roar of that genre more) you will certainly appreciate how perfectly this vocal style fits in with the music. This album wouldn't be the same without them.



The music itself is wonderful. This album is everything that is to be expected by a Death/Black Metal fan. Fast, brutal, heavy, evil, foreboding. Each of these are embodied fully throughout the CD. From the first note of the opener "Credo Decimatus" through the last second of "Lustmord" Angel Corpse RAGE through their tracks. That isn't to say songs are repetitive or predictable, each one has its own time signatures, riffs, and personality. The drumming is very fast throughout with very few breaks but constantly shifts its focus from blasts to gallops to triplets, etc, making for a rock-solid foundation on which the rest of the music is placed. The guitar work is awesome, with fast, technical riffs, blistering solos (which remind me of Morbid Angel's earlier works) that are short, but so technical that they feel quite long. Bass is barely audible but is still "felt" due to the Black Metal tuning (low-fi and raw sounding, but with color and depth. A great achievement).



All-in-all, this is a magnificent album. If you fancy yourself a fan of extreme Metal, pick this up. The faint-hearted need not apply."

Why yet again?

Evan Eberhardt | 12/18/2008

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Angel Corpse have done it again. Another slab of darkened death. But AGAIN with the awful production!! They sounded best when I saw them live back in 1999. So much skill in metal except in the recording department. WTF Angel Corpse? Hire a recording pro next time. Please! It almost brings me to tears to imagine their albums with the sound quality of say, Divine Heresy. Almost as tragic as Cradle of Filth's great album 'Cruelty and the Beast' that also suffered from poor sound production. And for all you fools out there who like bad production because it supposedly sounds 'real' or some such nonsense really need to get a clue. I suppose you also reject HDTV and instead prefer fuzzy broadcast. Backwards thinking. Grow up."