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SHRINE OF DENIAL
"I, Moloch" (Transcending
Obscurity; 2025)
Reviewed by R. Scott Bolton
I'm not the biggest fan of death metal, blackened or not. I usually get the music, it grabs you by the throat and holds you tightly from the beginning of the song to the end. But the vocals turn me off. I mean, what's the point of even having vocals if you can't understand a damn word? (Yeah, I know. "Damn you kids! Get off my lawn!).
But then I heard Shrine of Denial's "I, Moloch," and, with this band, at least, I get it all.
It's not that the band's vocalist articulates any better than any of his peers out there. It's that his vocals and the music make sense together. With the crushing, sweeping waves of sound that Shrine of Denial machine-guns at you as you listen to this album, the vocals fit like a leather glove. Every song feels mighty, epic, and complete. "I, Moloch" has a fascinating complexity of colliding sounds that blend together seamlessly to create something that's familiar but somehow fresh and new at the same time.
I encourage anyone who's into death metal, blackened metal, blackened death metal or any of the other endless genre tabs that have been created out there in the ether to give Shrine of Denial's "I, Moloch" a listen.
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Rating Guide:
A classic. This record will kick your ass.
Killer. Not a classic but it will rock your world.
So-so. You've heard better.
Pretty bad. Might make a nice coaster.
Self explanatory. Just the sight of the cover makes you wanna hurl.
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