After accumulating a lot of respect with a series of EP’s, THY DYING LIGHT have their debut full length album of old school Black Metal worship. Out via Purity Through Fire and Worship Tapes on April 11th.
Ferocious guitars and blasting drums fire into a cacophony of 90s worshipping Black Metal devastation with harshly rasping vocals and a raw production, added dissonance gives some further flare to the obliterating onslaught while the clear-cut mystical old school vibe is totally intact. Thy Dying Light has always been a project that never set out to do something new, preferring to recreate the stylistic mastery that the Norwegians offered in the early 90s. With plentiful groove, bleaker atmospherics and fiercely raw riffing over crushing blasts, this definitely conjures up that sound. There is a gorgeously diverse range of tempo and approach with slower sections adding ambience while overall a much more caustic assault of blastbeats and tremolo riffs is definitely the main course here. The savage approach to the music definitely has a passionately aggressive feel to it that conveys the icy northern England elements within the frozen extremity beautifully while the excellently primal approach to the songwriting keeps things simple, smooth and memorable with a blistering punch of pure old school Black Metal magnificence. A ritualistic atmosphere is definitely also present with a somewhat repetitive style to concoct a rhythmic attack that is not overcomplicated but certainly is very effective with a fantastically concise set of killer riffs over tremendous drums and eerie howling snarls breaking through the instrumental hellfire. Burning with the ember of such a classic sound but not only doing it justice but also breathing new life into it, Thy Dying Light have definitely delivered a killer full length which combines some classic tracks from the EPs but with a new, more fine-tuned outcome which has trimmed the fat and gives us the very best, most ferocious tracks in an album that wastes no time at all and remains consistent, unrelenting and crushing from start to end. A truly magnificent debut album packed with groove, blasting annihilation and grisly riffs, all old school Black Metal fans need to give this tempest of savagery a spin. -8/10
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