Vicious Knights
"Alteration Through Possession"
Dying Victims 2022
Before I even started listening to the debut album from Vicious Knights, I paid much attention to the cover art. There is nothing revealing about it, some ghosts in a haunted house, simply a classic heavy metal picture. And probably for this reason it gives high hopes as to the musical content of the release. My hopes quickly turned out to be not in vain, because “Alteration Through Possession” is thirty-five minutes of really good old style playing. The Greeks draw handfuls from the classics of both thrash and death metal, and names such as Sepultura (from the "Schizophrenia" period) or Celtic Frost are no strangers to them. We will find here a classic riffing, without hiding technical deficiencies or not fully thought out ideas behind a thick curtain of muddy sound. It is clearly legible, although definitely analogue, and all instruments are selective, adding their brick to the whole. Gentlemen can definitely play them, the first proof of which are the solos appearing from time to time to increase the pace. The vocals also make an appropriate impression, shouting out successive phrases also in an old school style, with a manner somewhere between harsh singing and growling. The compositions are usually kept at a medium and faster (by the standards of the eighties) pace and they radiate natural honesty. This is the metal that makes the fist clench itself and travel up, like at Fenriz's. Sure, you won't experience innovative elements here, but that's what the authors meant. To recycle the old shit in the tastiest possible way. So if you grew up at the turn of the eighties and nineties and you want to feel younger for a moment, turn on "Alteration Through Possession", because it is a kind of time machine. And I will be happy to ride it again.
- jesusatan
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