Cult of the Holy War

Listening to music anyone will hear that the members are not overly talented on their instruments. In fact, in some portions the guitars are badly played. The songs are not very memorable at all. The best song on this album is a cover and that says a lot about this album. For me personally the biggest problem with the songs are that they build up to a climax that never arrives. Dull, and not very well played, riffing together alongside very basic drumming and a voice meant, i guess, to sound emotional that just sound forced. The uptempo songs lacks the drive so badly needed and the slow songs lacks good melodies. The keyboards sounds like something stolen from a 80´s Bon Jovi demo. There is really not much to aplaud with this album but the one thing that is really good are lycrics whichj are really well written and holds lots of depth which makes it even more sad that the music is not there to back it up at all.

A quick summary would be: Don´t believe the hype but then again I guess it depends on which reference the listener have. I don´t care very much for the gothic touch that lies like a bad smelling shadow over the album. Anyhow, anyone curious about the band Rahowa should check out their debut instead. It is more interesting and there by more worthy to spend money on