World Wide Death

Awful, truly awful stuff. They downtune the fuck out of their guitars in hopes to try and sound heavier than most death metal bands, but even there they failed miserably. Magus Caligula needs to stick to Dark Funeral because he apparently can no longer manage a legible, powerful roar anymore. The production is shit and it makes the super downtuned guitars sound even worse. Not only that but the album artwork is pure shit, just look at it. It looks like some 14 year old drew it in the hopes of making his conservative Christian parents piss their pants for not letting him stay out past 10 o'clock. Hell, had the band given me the money and time I could have managed something better myself.

Let's first start with the guitars themselves. They need their own paragraph because this is truly awful. It sounds like they use Drop A or A# standard tuning (maybe even lower, doubtful, though), but they can't even write a good riff so it completely defeats the purpose of tuning your guitars that low. I always hated it when certain death metal bands did this because, frankly, they sound no better than any random deathcore band. Hell, Death Cult Armageddon sounds heavier and better than this album and I'm pretty damn sure that Dimmu Borgir doesn't tune lower than D standard.

The drumming is repetitive and boring as all hell. I'll tell you what they should have done; they should have gotten Torturer (ex-Belphegor) to do the drums, he would've at least been one plus in this band's miserable attempt to make good death metal. Caligula sounds like he has laryngitis with the added bonus of having his balls clipped with clothespins. In a nutshell, he sounds fucking horrible. I don't know what the hell happened between now and his days with Hypocrisy, but he surely went downhill. I don't know why he sounds like this, either. If he can howl like he does in Dark Funeral than I don't see why he can't manage at least a halfway decent growl.

The song titles are stupid as hell. I usually don't talk about song titles in my reviews but these are bad enough where they just need mention. Now, how old are these guys? They're in their late 30s, early 40s I assume. Why in the hell do they have songs like 'Headless Nun Whore'? Even Cannibal Corpse has a bit more class to them that that. It's not that it's offensive (because then there'd be no point in listening to the genre at all) it that's its stupidly offensive. The lyrics to Priests of Sodom alone beats anything this band could ever muster up. They're trying way to damn hard and it definitely shows.

Stay away from this album. Anyone who is interested in anything involving Caligula's done should ignore this tripe and just stick to Dark Funeral and old school Hypocrisy. Poor Tobias & Lord Philipson, I don't know what the hell they were thinking when they decided to affiliate themselves with this band. Here they are in a band that's good enough already (The Project Hate) and they decide to flock with the guys who use Windows Paint to draw a cut in half zombie Jesus on a cross. I assume that it's Jesus considering this artwork is so badly drawn that I could have mistaken it for any asshole if I was completely unaware of the crucifixion. In a nutshell, this album fucking sucks.