Obiasot Dwybat Ptnotun

This is the fifth album of the Brazilian black/death metal horde Anarkhon. They played remarkable gore death metal on their debut album unleashed back in 2006, but gradually "enlightenment" descended on them, so they began to play more "spiritually driven" music, black/death metal, very gloomy and hateful, something in the spirit of late Revenge, Archgoat, Teitanblood. But even that kind of sophistication was not enough for them, and since Anarkhon is, relatively speaking, a parallel band of Power From Hell members, they chose the same scenario for the next stage of modernization, a sharp increase in the number of dissonances.

Alas, it seems that they over-indulged with dissonant concentration and lost the sense of proportion: the dissonant riffs on "Obiasot Dwybat Ptnotun" are frankly tiring to listen to. Yes, there are interesting riffs, of course, but they lack variety, as a result we get endless looped dissonant guitar picking. Much worse is that there are very few impressive melodies on "Obiasot Dwybat Ptnotun"; it is significantly inferior to the previous album "Phantasmagorical Personification..." in terms of piercing pieces.

Perhaps Anarkhon should have stopped at that level and not rushed into the abyss of dissonance. From time to time they return to their "roots", we can hear old-school gore death metal passages, but they indulge in nostalgia for a short time and return to their beloved dissonances. There are many tempo changes in the songs, however blastbeat attacks on the edge of grindcore hardly take up half of the album, basically groovy mid-tempo riffs reign.

Loyal fans of the band will most likely love the recent material too, but we strongly do not recommend starting your acquaintance with the band from this material. Well, Power From Hell managed to modernize their original genre much more convincingly.

Metalegion # 13