Sometimes the best thing about death metal is just that it’s textbook definition death metal- full of angry riffs, pounding drum structures, mesmerizing themes, demonic basslines, and compositional structures that would impress even most experimental classical music composers. This is what the Rogga Johansson-powered Swedish old school death metal outfit Revolting brings in by the truckload in their upcoming ‘The Shadow At The World’s End’ full-length. In the recently-premiered and fittingly-titled Carnage Will Come track, Revolting serves this same promise that good high-definition death metal is all about. No Clean Singing did the premiere for the lyric video of the track, which you can read more about and check out AT THIS LINK. An excerpt:
“supernatural horrors inhabit the song, from the lyrics in which a protagonist glories in the coming blood-spattered destruction of humanity to the gruesome menace and berserker mayhem in the music. Perhaps needless to say, the riffs are catchy and the rhythms will snap at your neck“
| Reviews: – “an album that should define tech and prog death from here on out” – Metal Temple (Greece) 10/10 – “a debut that deserves an ‘A'”- Dioses Del Metal (Spain) 9/10 – “Revolting’s new single is why we love death metal” – The Pit (US) – “This is Swededeath the way it was meant to be played” – Two Guys Metal Reviews (US) – “knows how to captivate” – Hell Is Open (Germany) 8.5/10 – “some of the best Swedish Death Metal to be unleashed” – Nattskog (UK) 9/10! – “interesting and diverse” – Blessed Altar Zine (US) 8/10 – “cuts, burns, transforms death itself into pure pain” – Deadly Storm Zine (Czech Republic) – “a tremendously multi-faceted hybrid of technical and progressive death metal” – No Clean Singing (US) – “clear outstanding effort” – Broken Tomb Magazine (Spain) |
Revolting (Sweden) – The Shadow At The World’s End (November 27th, 2020)
Genre – Old School Death Metal
Release Date – November 27th, 2020
Record Label – Transcending Obscurity Records
For fans of -Paganizer, Rogga Johansson, Entombed, Dismember, Edge of Sanity, Hypocrisy, Grave, Unleashed, early Tiamat
Revolting happens to be one of Rogga Johansson’s most prominent and long-running bands along with Paganizer. The band is also one of the most active ones. Fans will know that they’ve honed their craft over the years and they do things in a better way with each one. For the seventh full length, Rogga Johansson has done his best blending classic Swedish melodies with the brute force that his bands are associated with. Imagine a mix of Paganizer and Rogga Johansson and you’ve got something that has the best qualities of both the Swedish-sounding bands, which are presently at the peak of their respective careers. There’s of course the added groove and memorability that’s hard to dislike. All in all, if you’re a fan of well-rounded Swedish death metal that has everything in spades, Revolting is for you.
Band lineup –
Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Down Among The Dead Men, Eye of Purgatory) – Vocals, Guitars
Tobias – Bass
Martin – Drums
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano (Goregang, The Black Dahlia Murder)
Layout by Turkka G. Rantanen (Paganizer, Henry Kane)
Track listing –
1. Defleshed
2. 1888
3. The Shadow At The World’s End
4. Sorrow As Companion
5. Daggers That Mimic Life’s Pain
6. Dragged Back To The Cellar
7. To The Bitter Bleeding End
8. Carnage Will Come
9. Revolted By Life Itself
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