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The Meads of Asphodel - In the Name of God, Welcome to Planet Genocide

The Meads Of Asphodel - In The Name Of God... - 90%

MagusAngraMainyu, July 29th, 2007

"In the name of god welcome to planet genocide" is a conceptual album and it's the conclusion of their latest album "Damascus Steel". It's a story on 7 songs, about the life and the death by crucifiction of Yeshua and of course his deification by the Roman Empire.


Being a conceptual album, The Meads Of Asphodel, have diversified music styles and genres by inspiration. Although their base style is black metal there can be found viking metal, power metal, doom, gothic, atmospheric/dark, thrash chords and a little bit of goa/trance and I think that if I would listen this album a couple of times again I'll find ten genres more. It's a powerful album that isn't similar to anyhthing that I've listened before. Considering that it is a conceptual album and these british guys have managed to combine so many styles in only 7 songs, makes me a little bit curious about their next releases.


The main songs in my opinion are: “My Beautiful Genocide”, “The Man Who Killed For God”, “Hell on Earth / Blood Runs Red (Discharge cover medley)” si “Aborted Stygian Foetus”, the last one also being the most interesting of all. In "My Beautiful Genocide" the presence of the mesopotamic theme is accentuated in a reaw black metal/doom/death style but also melodic. The presentation of this album by this first song(excepting the intro) is brilliant. It describes perfectly the atmosphere of the 2000 years ago ages.


"The Man Who Killed For God" is a superb song with female vocals, the background is a slow industrial rhytm with power metal guitars. In a way it's a ballad and if I didn't know this story's subject I could've sweared that it belongs to the mythical stories of Tolkien. The ending of this song is by increasing the rythm in an apocalyptic/depressive way.


“Hell on Earth / Blood Runs Red (Discharge cover medley)” is a song formed by two cover songs after Discharge. Brutal thrash that puts the dot on i, well thought because the merger of the songs is unperceptabile. After reading the lyrics and I remembered that the guys from Discharge are also british, I realized that this song is nothing more than a cover made for their own pleasure because the lyrics have nothing to do with the story. Anyway, it's a song that deserves to be listened to.


"Aborted Stygian Foetus" is the song that concludes the album and after my opinion is the strangest song of all. Influences, in proportion of 90%, of goa/trance/atmospheric and dark that suddenly changes the whole idea formed by then. The black/death male voice and the feminine one are unfolded perfectly on drum'n'bass beats. At one moment, you can observe even jazz influences but suddenly everything stops. This is just for 20 minutes, after that you can hear a little ironic scene made for the church. The so-called reverend urges us to flesh pleasures and more and the background songs are really funny. Kill some minutes from your life to hear this.


In general, this album is very good and deserves to be bought. the grade that I give isn't a 10 because of the cover and because of the lack of mergering between the songs which can cause confusion at some point of the time.

Magus Mainyu
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