Maha Kali

As I was hoping Dissection would return with something great, and now that I've listened to this I'm sure the new album will be anything else than bad. There's not much to say about this single, as it contains two songs; Maha Kali, a new song, and Unhallowed, a re-recorded song from the previous album. But on to the songs:

Maha Kali [06:01]

This is actually excellent, but if the whole album is going to be like this, it might get a bit boring after a while, but alone this song is great.

It starts off with something that reminds me of Einherjer, with the drumbeat, and midway it goes into an acoustic part with clean vocals that's done very well, and the female vocals gives a nice touch to it all, although I'm not a big fan of female vocals.

The solo on this is actually very good, yet a little lifeless. It would be better if it was played with more feeling. The production is also a bit worse than the previous albums, but not bad at all
But as said before in the reviews of this, the best thing about this is Jon's vocals. Damn that guy can do his vocals.

Unhallowed (Rebirth Version) [06:05]

Not much to say about this, really, as it sounds about the same as the original version, but it's completely re-recorded with Jon's great vocals, and the new production (that's a bit worse than the last album), and the song is still a good song, and is it just me, or is the "with liftened dreadful swords..."-part catchy?

Anyway, to sum it all up. I like this single, but I hope the whole album won't be like Maha Kali, because then it's probably going to be pretty boring. But together with a nice song like Unhallowed it's excellent.