Black Wings of Destiny

This is Dragonlord’s second album and it is a pretty good album. The disk starts off with an instrumental with keyboards, guitars, drums and media tracks. Then the real music starts with “Curse of Woe” which is probably the best track off the album. Their style of music is a mix thrash/black metal with the symphonic touch.

When you hear their music you will notice the vocals sounding a little like Dimmu Borgir’s. Even with that said Peterson’s vocals are much better and are done quite well with shrieks, some growls, and very good melodic/operatic vocals like in “Revelations”. Peterson’s lyrics are dark and good with lyrics of tales dragons and all of evil’s makings. The rest of the music is done good adding good black metal riffs and mixing them with the thrash metal riffs. The drumming unlike on most black metal disks is not all blast beats, but different which gives more variety to the music. The keyboards give the songs most of the dark touch with many different sounds creating the maximum devil worshiping feeling. They have ten tracks on the c.d. and the last two are great cover songs of Mercyful Fate and Thin Lizzy.When it comes the production on the album it is top notch and gives the best listening experience.

In the end this is a good album, it uses the newer black metal sound but it is done really well. I recommend listening to the songs “Curse of Woe”, “Revelations”, “Fallen” and “Blood Voyeur”.