The Dark Blood Rising (The Hatecrowned Retaliation)

This sounds a bit different from the tons of black metal bands that play nowadays; drums are really mechanical, samples are often used, vocals are sometimes lower than typical black metal and keyboards are not over-used, but present, and with many electronics contaminations.

The main thing I noticed is that many songs seem to have a structure that makes them sound like a collage of riffs and ideas without knowing what the song will sound like: this may be interesting and useful the avoid boreness,but when this happens, it doesn't seem to work perfectly.
Over-used ideas or samples make the first songs annoying in many parts,and all of them sounding like "sample intro - evil tremolo picking riff - sample - evil tremolo picking riff -sample - electronic sample -evil tremolo picking riff - ending"
Some ideas are really good, but used too much all over the songs!

When the guitar works finally seems to work perfectly, with a good "evil" tremolo picked melody, it starts wiith electronic disco beats that ruin it all...


Fortunately, on track 9,things seem to change: a slow song, with good melodic solos (even it is a very simple song it's probably my favourite on the album), clean vocals parts, no samples and good keyboard backgrounds.

Track 10 takes something from classic black metal and something from the style of track 9: that's what I wanted to hear. The electronic samples work fitting the song perfectly (except for the outro).
The album finishes with a spoken part.

If you like experimental black metal,you will probably like this album.
Most of the good moments are in the ending, it's not enough to make this a really good album when the first 5 songs are almost boring.
A next album made working on the ideas of the last 2 songs would be great.