Music: Metal
Website: www.nephwrack.com
Country: England
Duration: 40:47 (10 songs)
Cool Songs: Cold Skin, Blacks The Sky, Leviatian Rising, By The Light
War
strong clean vocals
black metally vocals
guitar solos and melodies that, when twinned with poignant lyrics, make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. This is The Once And Future King. This is the new sound of Nephwrack.
I dont know what I was expecting when Nephwrack said they were going to release an album. I knew it would be different to the EP I just didnt realise how different! Even the few Nephwrack gigs that Ive attended didnt really prepare me for it (Leviatian Rising seems completely different to how I remember it!) and so, when I popped the disk into the CD player I was surprised. Surprised in a very good way.
The Once And Future King is produced to a very high professional standard. This means that you can enjoy each track in its full glory rather than wondering what it could be like if only the production was that little bit better.
The album starts off with Legion which is, in this reviewers opinion, the weakest track on the album. Perhaps this is just a question of personal taste, but I would not have opened with this one. Fortunately, this is the only track that lets the album down.
The highlights for me are Blacks The Sky, “Underclass”, Fall Of Empires, By The Light and the magnificent Leviatian Rising. Special mentions need to go to Teargas and Cold Skin for providing the aforementioned hairs-on-the-back-of-neck moments. The moment just before and during the guitar solo in Teargas is one and the part (and just after the part) when Christian sings And we are tired, and lulled to sleep by the death outside our door in Cold Skin is another.
As a listener (and, ok, I admit it a fan), I couldnt have hoped for more from a debut. So, why am I giving it an 8 out of 10? Why not the full 10? Im doing this because I know this isnt the best the Nephwrack can do I know that whatever they do next will eclipse this completely. With that said, you still need to buy this album get yourself a slice of history in the making.
note: 9/10
Tracklist
Legion
Blacks The Sky
Cold Skin
Fall Of Empires
Teargas
By The Light
Leviatian Rising
Underclass
Cut Down
Messiahs Day
Line-up
Ed – Lead Guitar/Vocals
Keir – Bass/Vocals
Carl – Drums
Fuzz – Lead Guitar
Christian – Vocals
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